Health & Safety built a privileged account register

“We'll replace it next year.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Kevin, a field technician

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

three AI coding tools arguing through the same repository

Database:

Jira custom fields, somehow

Authentication:

the security model is "we have antivirus"

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

the audit log records "updated successfully"

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Tobias is on holiday.

Age: 42 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 59 users, 3 departments depend on it.