Sales built a training completion tracker

“The workshop was tomorrow.”— Tobias, Sales

Reason:

Officially because the ticket has been open for 823 days. Forked from a tutorial at 16:02 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Tobias, a working student

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a SOAP service returning XML from 2 years ago

Authentication:

Miriam knows the password

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Thursday, no staging

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €799/day through a third party

Documentation:

a Slack thread from December

Security situation:

passwords are stored in a spreadsheet for emergencies

Future disaster:

It will cause IT to ask "what server?".

Age: 7.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €1.4m per year, 667 users, alive 122x longer than intended.