Business Development built a vendor risk questionnaire

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 5 months. Built in 51 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sarah, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

React, Vite and unreasonable confidence

Database:

a SQL Server instance called test that nobody is allowed to restart

Authentication:

the firewall is disabled because it blocked something

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Ravi understands

Responsible:

Anja, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

the security review consisted of opening DevTools

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 51 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €94k per year, 14% chance of becoming business critical, 1 departments depend on it.