The Management Assistant built a dashboard connected directly to production

“Nobody would want this data.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Sofia, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

dates stored as text in 3 different formats

Authentication:

the second factor is knowing which door the server room is behind

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

one README with 10 TODOs

Security situation:

the audit log also contains passwords

Future disaster:

It will become business critical in 7 months.

Age: 2.4 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 30% chance of becoming business critical, alive 41x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.