Finance built a price list with its own opinions

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Because Chen from Finance is on holiday until October. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Thomas, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

an API key in the frontend bundle

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Chen, who inherited it from Thomas by accident

Documentation:

one README with 14 TODOs

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 6.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 487 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €399k per year, 71% chance of becoming business critical, 112 users.