The Management Assistant built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“The firewall should block it.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the meeting to fix it created 3 more meetings. With a logo generated at 08:23.

Built by:

Anja, a field technician

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a production table with no primary key

Authentication:

the password manager is someone's browser

Deployment:

behind a CDN for an app only used inside one building

Responsible:

Anja, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 6 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Age: 238 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, €147k per year, 66 users.