CEO Office built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“It has HTTPS.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because someone said "can't ChatGPT do this?". With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Priya, a field technician

Build time:

4 hours 19 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with increasingly ambitious automations

Database:

a JSON file in Git called production-data.json

Authentication:

passwords are stored in plaintext, for troubleshooting

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 16:53.

Age: 7.7 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 2487 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 412 users, alive 47x longer than intended, 25% chance of becoming business critical.