The SharePoint Team built a canned response manager

“There are only like twelve users.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because the vendor quoted 12 months and one workshop. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Olivier, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

a SharePoint list that started as a temporary workaround

Authentication:

the certificate expired 11 days ago

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

Sofia, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

a calendar invite description from April

Security situation:

security is handled by keeping the URL secret

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 83 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 48x longer than intended, the builder has left, 1 users.