CEO Office built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“IT would have taken months.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the dropdown contains 355 options. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Kevin, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a nightly CSV export emailed to Katrin

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

deployed every time Nadia remembers

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 11 days ago

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 48 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 34 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 65% chance of becoming business critical, 65 users, 3 departments depend on it.