The Mailroom built a 'temporary' inventory system

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Because the audit is in 10 weeks. With 240 users and 15 feature requests.

Built by:

Nadia, someone from Procurement

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Bootstrap 3 and a dream

Database:

an S3 bucket called app_db with public access "temporarily" enabled

Authentication:

the intern has production access

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

Head of Operations, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Daniel is on holiday.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 196 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 66% chance of becoming business critical, €80k per year, alive 31x longer than intended.