R&D built an email campaign sender bypassing marketing

“The workshop was tomorrow.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Officially because it was faster to build it than to explain it to HR Generalist. With a logo generated at 09:07.

Built by:

Nadia, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

one table with 96 columns

Authentication:

TLS is enabled, certificate warnings are ignored

Deployment:

running on port 3000 in production

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in May

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 15 empty headings

Security situation:

the security review consisted of Tobias saying "looks fine"

Future disaster:

It will round money differently from Finance.

Age: 8.8 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 1534 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 107x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.