IT (yes, really) built a deployment button

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the official form has 33 fields and not the one that matters. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Anja, someone from Procurement

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

Airtable on Olivier's personal plan

Authentication:

SSO, but only for Chen

Deployment:

on a Raspberry Pi in the server room

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will break the day Anja changes their password.

Age: 3.5 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 379 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, nobody owns it, alive 21x longer than intended.