Operations built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“It's basically Airtable.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the CEO asked for it in a corridor on a Friday. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Anja, a field technician

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a Postgres database called main-new containing 4 years of production data

Authentication:

TLS is optional because it is internal

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 101 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, €118k per year, it is load bearing.