The CFO built a monthly reporting tool

“IT would have taken months.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because the form contains 76 fields and 5 of them are called "Other". With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Elena, a key account manager

Build time:

2 hours 49 minutes

Built with:

Zapier being used as middleware

Database:

a vector database because somebody said RAG

Authentication:

MFA is enabled for 1 people

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

Head of Operations, who has never opened it

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 6 times

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 4.8 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 58x longer than intended, 11 users, 14% chance of becoming business critical.