HR built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“It's only for one department.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because someone called it "basically just CRUD". Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Kevin, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

MongoDB containing a collection called test2_final

Authentication:

the security model is "we have antivirus"

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Wednesday, no staging

Responsible:

Chen, who inherited it from Kevin by accident

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 75 comments

Security situation:

security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi

Future disaster:

It will round money differently from Finance.

Age: 21 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 21 days ago · original builder left 36 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 17 users, 18% chance of becoming business critical.