Internal Communications built a roadmap voting tool

“It has a padlock icon.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the source of truth depends on which department you ask. Forked from a tutorial at 23:28 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Bastian, a controller

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a Kubernetes PersistentVolume nobody wants to delete

Authentication:

CORS is set to * because the frontend was not working

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Sofia understands

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 2 active members

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 14 days ago · original builder left 46 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, 29% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.