Business Development built a home office equipment tracker

“We just need it until SAP is updated.”— Priya, Business Development

Reason:

Mainly because the form takes 28 minutes to complete and times out after 12. With 597 users and 61 feature requests.

Built by:

Priya, a key account manager

Build time:

5 hours 57 minutes

Built with:

SharePoint lists pretending to be an application

Database:

a network drive mapped as Z: on three people's computers

Authentication:

the security review happened after the incident

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

Jens, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a Miro board with 181 sticky notes

Security situation:

the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2033.

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 14 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 162 users, 40% chance of becoming business critical, 1 accidental connections.