Sales built an NPS survey with one respondent

“We didn't have time to wait for IT.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because management has a PowerPoint with a third number. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Tobias, someone from Procurement

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

Elasticsearch, because somebody wanted search

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

deployed Friday at 17:07

Responsible:

Nadia, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a Word document called Suppliers_FIXED_v2.xlsx

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will make an audit take 5 extra weeks.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €2.5m per year, 423 users, 4 departments depend on it.