The CFO built a tax deadline tracker

“We'll migrate it eventually.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because the backlog contains 180,129 items and one priority. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Bastian, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

ChatGPT, copy, paste, repeat

Database:

an FTP server nobody knows the password for

Authentication:

the login page is protected by another login page

Deployment:

last deployed 88 days ago

Responsible:

Sofia, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 16:31.

Age: 4.8 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 199 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 252x longer than intended, €84k per year, the builder has left.