Logistics built a travel request form

“Sales already promised it.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Allegedly because the fax machine is still somehow involved. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Chen, an analyst

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

an SQLite file called backup(1).db

Authentication:

the password manager is a Word document

Deployment:

deployed 36 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 14 months ago

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 2 minutes to load

Security situation:

the audit log also contains passwords

Future disaster:

It will silently stop syncing and nobody will notice for 7 months.

Age: 215 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 79% chance of becoming business critical, 2 accidental connections, 6 users.