IT (yes, really) built a lead scoring system

“Nobody would want this data.”— Petra, IT (yes, really)

Reason:

Officially because Friday at 16:25 seemed like a reasonable time to deploy. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Petra, someone from Procurement

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

two databases kept "mostly in sync"

Authentication:

the security model is a locked office door

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

Bastian, according to Jira

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 6 times

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 218 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 218 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 16% chance of becoming business critical, 1 departments depend on it, alive 4x longer than intended.