Sales built a knowledge base with a search that does not search

“IT would have taken months.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because it was faster to build it than to explain it to HR Generalist. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Sarah, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

a folder called DATABASE

Authentication:

email magic links to Priya's personal Gmail

Deployment:

deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 8 years

Responsible:

Finance Business Partner, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 103 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 103 days ago · original builder left 46 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, the builder has left, alive 7x longer than intended.