Procurement built a headcount planning app

“We just need it until SAP is updated.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Honestly? Because the last person who understood it left 6 months ago. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Sofia, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a MySQL database called temp on a machine under a desk

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €50.22/month

Responsible:

Sofia, who left 9 months ago

Documentation:

a Slack thread from November

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will break the day Sofia changes their password.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 152 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, the builder has left, 25 users.