Sales built an email campaign sender bypassing marketing

“AWS probably handles that.”— Kevin, Sales

Reason:

Honestly? Because the budget expires on Wednesday. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Kevin, a recruiter

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a Google Sheet with 144,945 rows and 77 tabs

Authentication:

the security model is "Google probably handles that"

Deployment:

deployed on Monday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

Group Controller, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 6 empty headings

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

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

Age: 22 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, €34k per year, 1 users.