Quality Assurance built a lead scoring system

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Daniel, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Allegedly because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €38,000. Started as Leads_old.csv with a script attached.

Built by:

Daniel, the management assistant

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

an array.

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

hosted on a free trial using Nadia's credit card

Responsible:

Kevin, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2020 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Marco about.

Age: 50 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 49 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 416 users, 69% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.