Quality Assurance built a contract deadline reminder bot

“It's on a weird port.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Mainly because the temporary solution has survived 4 managers. Already exported 5,875 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Elena, a controller

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

58,867 XML files generated by SAP

Authentication:

email magic links to Petra's personal Gmail

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 7 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 211 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 211 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 465 users, 84% chance of becoming business critical, 4 departments depend on it.