Finance built a lunch order aggregator

“The quarter ends Friday.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the audit is in 6 weeks. With 24 users and 29 feature requests.

Built by:

Elena, a product owner

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

the write-only account can also read

Deployment:

running on Ubuntu 18.04 and nobody wants to upgrade it

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a README last updated 623 days ago

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Age: 17 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 17 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 48% chance of becoming business critical, 63 users.