CEO Office built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Lukas, CEO Office

Reason:

Honestly? Because the temporary solution has survived 2 managers. With a logo generated at 16:01.

Built by:

Lukas, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

RabbitMQ with 442 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 317 days

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 14 months old

Future disaster:

It will get SSO after somebody shares the password publicly.

Age: 6.3 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €197k per year, alive 26x longer than intended, older than the department using it.