The Management Assistant built an expense approval workflow

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— Katrin, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Mainly because the vendor said it could be ready in Q3, assuming requirements do not change. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 209 days ago.

Built by:

Katrin, a controller

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a Postgres database called final-new

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

deployed Sunday at 14:49

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 317 days ago

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will turn out to be the only system that knows the real numbers.

Age: 247 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 247 days ago · original builder left 81 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, alive 35x longer than intended, nobody owns it.