Quality Assurance built a video game

“We only need it until the migration.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the licence costs €249 per year, per seat. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 823 days ago.

Built by:

Kevin, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

MongoDB where every document has a different schema

Authentication:

the password hint contains the password

Deployment:

running with 97% disk usage

Responsible:

Katrin, who only knows the database

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

the admin account is also the service account

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 284 days, including the important ones.

Age: 5.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 37% chance of becoming business critical, alive 61x longer than intended, €43k per year.