Sales built a sales dashboard nobody asked for

“The AI understands the code.”— Chen, Sales

Reason:

Mainly because the admin account belongs to somebody who left 12 months ago. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Chen, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the guest account can see more than expected

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will accidentally CC 179 people.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 533 days ago · original builder left 256 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 195 users, 64% chance of becoming business critical, alive 76x longer than intended.