Marketing built a second CRM

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Anja, Marketing

Reason:

Because the approval chain includes 8 people and one shared mailbox. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Anja, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

the reset password button emails the old password back

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Friday, no staging

Responsible:

Anja, who left 16 months ago

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

It will round money differently from Finance.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 507 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 196 users, the builder has left, 1 accidental connections.