An intern built a sales dashboard nobody asked for

“It's only metadata.”— Bastian, An intern

Reason:

Because the process has 14 steps, 5 of which are "send an email". With a roadmap in the README, last touched 141 days ago.

Built by:

Bastian, someone from Procurement

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a Postgres database called new

Authentication:

the encryption key is in a comment explaining not to share it

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 6 months ago

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

certificate warnings are considered normal

Future disaster:

It will be reported to the data protection officer by a customer.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 531 users, €100k per year, alive 16x longer than intended.