IT (yes, really) built a vendor onboarding portal

“Sales already promised it.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the meeting to fix it created 2 more meetings. Started as Stock_list_backup.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Anja, a product owner

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

Daniel, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Bastian"

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €249 to the wrong country.

Age: 55 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 55 days ago · original builder left 47 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €334k per year, the builder has left, alive 8x longer than intended.