Facilities built a content request form

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because the temporary solution has survived 7 managers. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Thomas, a field technician

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

an internal API copied from a Stack Overflow answer

Database:

dates stored as text in 3 different formats

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

Miriam, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will gain 353 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 223 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 223 days ago · original builder left 85 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 350 users, 61% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.