Customer Support built an org chart nobody updates

“It's only one database.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the form contains 88 fields and 8 of them are called "Other". Built in 27 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Anja, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

the office IP is allow-listed, including the coffee shop next door

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

Priya, informally

Documentation:

a README containing 9 broken links

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 2.9 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 371 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, €32k per year, alive 12x longer than intended.