CEO Office built a customer portal

“It's not really an application.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Because the optional field breaks everything if left empty. Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Tobias, a key account manager

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

the admin route is called /admin-new-final

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Stock_list_new2.xlsx

Responsible:

Jens, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT must stop.

Age: 4.7 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 124 users, 3 accidental connections, 3 departments depend on it.