Facilities built a performance review form

“It's only one database.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the official form has 45 fields and not the one that matters. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Elena, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

security by obscurity, but without much obscurity

Deployment:

running behind nginx config copied from Stack Overflow

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in February

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 51 slides

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT must stop.

Age: 9.0 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 451 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 37x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.