Sales built a product catalogue that disagrees with the product catalogue

“It's basically an internal tool.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because somebody watched a 28 minute tutorial. Built in 9 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Anja, a key account manager

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

Teams chat history

Authentication:

the security contact is whoever notices first

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

Chen, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the certificate expired 88 days ago

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 8% of records.

Age: 42 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 users, alive 1x longer than intended, €80 per year.