The Management Assistant built a demo environment that became production

“It's only temporary.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the process requires signatures from 8 people. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Petra, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a CSV called Invoices_Q3_use-this-one_final.xlsm in a shared drive

Authentication:

a URL 94 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 13 days

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 340 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 340 days ago · original builder left 276 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €118k per year, nobody owns it, alive 24x longer than intended.