Finance built an org chart nobody updates

“We only need it until the consultant comes back.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Mainly because SAP logs you out after 7 minutes of inactivity. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Sofia, a product owner

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a Map().

Authentication:

the read-only account can update records

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Sarah's laptop

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 8.3 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, alive 101x longer than intended, direct production access.