Quality Assurance built an NPS survey with one respondent

“We'll tell Security once it works.”— Sofia, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Officially because the test account belongs to Chen from a controller. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Sofia, an analyst

Build time:

3 hours 56 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an Outlook shared mailbox with 25,961 unread records

Authentication:

the write-only account can also read

Deployment:

running on Ubuntu 18.04 and nobody wants to upgrade it

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the admin account is also the service account

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Jens.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 450 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 82 users, direct production access.