Procurement built Excel with a login screen

“The customer already saw the demo.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Mainly because the process requires signatures from 7 people. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Daniel, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since August

Authentication:

the secret is in Git history, so deleting it felt pointless

Deployment:

hosted in Olivier's Azure subscription

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 2 active members

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 65 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 466 users, 16% chance of becoming business critical, €11k per year.