The Reporting Team built a dependency register

“It's too obscure to attack.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Honestly? Because the approval chain includes 5 people and one shared mailbox. Started as Stock_list_old.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Daniel, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a serverless architecture with one very stateful function

Database:

a JSON file in production

Authentication:

the secret is in the screenshot in the README

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

Regional Sales Lead, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2024

Security situation:

the security review consisted of Katrin saying "looks fine"

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 9% of records.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 352 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €367k per year, alive 36x longer than intended, 35 users.