A Committee With No Budget built a sales dashboard nobody asked for

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 209 days. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Ravi, a team lead

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

SAP, indirectly, through 5 CSV exports

Authentication:

Daniel thinks Priya knows the password

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

the security review consisted of Daniel saying "looks fine"

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 5.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 913 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 264x longer than intended, 55 users, nobody owns it.