Sales built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the audit is in 11 weeks. Already exported 203,338 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Sofia, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a Postgres database called prod containing 4 years of production data

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Wednesday, no staging

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 141 days ago

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will get its own budget line before it gets an owner.

Age: 180 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 180 days ago · original builder left 96 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.2m per year, 2 accidental connections, alive 26x longer than intended.