Administration built a non-conformance register

“Nobody would want this data.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because someone called it "basically just CRUD". Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Elena, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a webhook pointed at someone's ngrok tunnel

Database:

an Excel file pretending to be a relational database

Authentication:

the username and password are printed on the login page

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Petra's laptop

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 401 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €396k per year, alive 30x longer than intended, the builder has left.