Operations built a price list with its own opinions

“It's on a weird port.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Mainly because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. Built in a long Thursday and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Thomas, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the audit log is console.log

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

a Slack thread from November

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.

Age: 4.5 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 1158 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €82k per year, alive 18x longer than intended, the builder has left.