Sales built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

“It's not really an application.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Because the customer asked for one tiny change. With a logo generated at 16:11.

Built by:

Anja, a key account manager

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a backup called backup-final-September.zip

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2021

Deployment:

hosted in Tobias's Azure subscription

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €1035/day through a third party

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €378k per year, alive 23x longer than intended, 11 users.