Procurement built an incident response dashboard

“We only need it until the consultant comes back.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the workaround has been in production for 8 months. Built in 2 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Miriam, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of optimism

Database:

a SQLite file inside a Docker volume nobody has backed up

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

behind a domain Olivier owns privately

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in September

Documentation:

a README last updated 11 days ago

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 179 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 97 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 228 users, the builder has left, alive 13x longer than intended.