Facility Services built an OKR tracker abandoned in week three

“IT would have taken months.”— Sarah, Facility Services

Reason:

Honestly? Because the integration works unless it is Sunday. With 35 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Sarah, an intern

Build time:

4 hours 10 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the firewall rule says "temporary"

Deployment:

last deployed 88 days ago

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 253 users, 10% chance of becoming business critical, alive 1x longer than intended.