Customer Support built a performance review form

“It's technically not production.”— Daniel, Customer Support

Reason:

Allegedly because the vendor said it could be ready in Q4, assuming requirements do not change. With a logo generated at 09:15.

Built by:

Daniel, a product owner

Build time:

1 hours 55 minutes

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

a Postgres database called app_db-final-2 containing 8 years of production data

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2022

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

one README with 9 TODOs

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of copy of copy of Suppliers_new.xlsx.

Age: 7.4 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 1258 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €821k per year, 309 users, 45% chance of becoming business critical.