Sales built a supplier scorecard

“Nobody would want this data.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Mainly because the bug is now documented behaviour. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Bastian, someone from Procurement

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

running on port 3000 in production

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Age: 40 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 40 days ago · original builder left 41 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, nobody owns it, €39k per year.