Sales built a probation review tracker

“We didn't have time to wait for IT.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the approval requires 3 people for a €2,400 purchase. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Tobias, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 5 years

Authentication:

the session never expires because that was annoying

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

Tobias, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Miriam about.

Age: 2.4 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 469 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 792 users, the builder has left, alive 10x longer than intended.