Marketing built an email attachment processor

“We can always rebuild it.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 10 months. With 991 users and 88 feature requests.

Built by:

Priya, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

SharePoint lists pretending to be an application

Database:

a Postgres database called app_db-old-final

Authentication:

the shared account belongs to Jens, who left 6 months ago

Deployment:

hosted on Thomas's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 12 times

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 64 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 64 days ago · original builder left 56 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €238k per year, nobody owns it, the builder has left.