The Warehouse Office built an org chart nobody updates

“It's basically an internal tool.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because Katrin left 16 months ago. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Tobias, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

169,937 XML files

Authentication:

the audit log is console.log

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will get its own budget line before it gets an owner.

Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 484 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 234 users, 38% chance of becoming business critical, nobody owns it.