Legal built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“It's only for a few people.”— Jens, Legal

Reason:

Mainly because someone said "GDPR" and the meeting went quiet. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Jens, a working student

Build time:

1 hours 7 minutes

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

an old laptop in the server room

Authentication:

MFA is disabled because somebody lost their phone

Deployment:

last successfully deployed 209 days ago

Responsible:

Olivier, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 5 times.

Age: 29 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 29 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 4x longer than intended, 10% chance of becoming business critical, €6k per year.