An intern built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“We can rebuild it properly later.”— Sofia, An intern

Reason:

Allegedly because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Monday. Built in 6 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sofia, the management assistant

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

a CSV called Customers.xlsm in a shared drive

Authentication:

a URL 94 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2020

Responsible:

Anja, who inherited it from Sofia by accident

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 16:38, nightly

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 17 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 17 days ago · original builder left 34 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €403k per year, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.