A Contractor built an accrual calculator

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Marco, A Contractor

Reason:

Allegedly because the Miro board is now the documentation. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Marco, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

whatever the AI picked first

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 1 years

Authentication:

Google sign-in, any Google account

Deployment:

running on port 3000 in production

Responsible:

Nadia, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the audit log also contains passwords

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 2.4 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 124x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it, 2 users.