Marketing built a customer health score with a formula in a comment

“Git is basically a backup.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Mainly because SAP needs 6 clicks and two approvals to add a supplier. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Thomas, a controller

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a backup drive that has not been plugged in for 3 months

Authentication:

the password is stored in a Teams channel called "Passwords"

Deployment:

deployed every time Chen remembers

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Sarah"

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Age: 4.9 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 91 users, €122k per year, alive 84x longer than intended.