An intern built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“SharePoint has version history.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Honestly? Because the process owner is Priya, who has never used the intranet. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 11 days ago.

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a Docker volume called temp and a prayer

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

Bastian, until somebody notices

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Chen leaves the company.

Age: 87 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 628 users, 26% chance of becoming business critical, alive 6x longer than intended.