The CEO built a contract repository with no search

“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the CEO tested it on an iPad. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Elena, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

SharePoint lists pretending to be an application

Database:

RabbitMQ with 397 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

deployed at 23:59 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

Katrin, who inherited it from Elena by accident

Documentation:

a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Elena, who built it

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 1.9 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 304 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €656k per year, the builder has left, 15 users.