Engineering built a key checkout register

“Nobody would want this data.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Because the documentation starts with "TODO". With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Olivier, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

MongoDB, because the schema was 'still evolving'

Database:

the filesystem.

Authentication:

Thomas thinks Thomas knows the password

Deployment:

hosted on a free trial using Priya's credit card

Responsible:

Lukas, according to nobody except Daniel

Documentation:

a calendar invite description from December

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 253 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 78% chance of becoming business critical, 4 departments depend on it, nobody owns it.