Procurement built a KPI wall for a screen nobody looks at

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Kevin, Procurement

Reason:

Because the vendor said it could be ready in Q3, assuming requirements do not change. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Kevin, the management assistant

Build time:

2 hours 6 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a Postgres database called main containing 6 years of production data

Authentication:

a URL 71 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

deployed Friday at 16:37

Responsible:

"the team", which is Kevin

Documentation:

one README with 1 TODOs

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 09:41, nightly

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €131k per year, alive 37x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.