CEO Office built a 'temporary' inventory system

“It's not indexed.”— Tobias, CEO Office

Reason:

Allegedly because the source of truth is an email attachment from July. Forked from a tutorial at 17:50 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Tobias, a field technician

Build time:

5 hours 49 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

the production database, directly, with write access

Authentication:

the guest account can see more than expected

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Daniel"

Future disaster:

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

Age: 6.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1520 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €534k per year, 145 users, alive 174x longer than intended.