HR built an expense approval workflow

“It's only customer names.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because the printer is somehow involved. Built in 3 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sofia, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

money stored as FLOAT

Authentication:

the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt

Deployment:

running on port 8081 in production

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

a README last updated 88 days ago

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Nadia's credit card expires.

Age: 272 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 272 days ago · original builder left 237 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 209 users, alive 39x longer than intended, 25% chance of becoming business critical.