R&D built a video game

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Sarah, R&D

Reason:

Mainly because the backlog contains 41,612 items and one priority. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Sarah, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a Docker volume called prod-new and a prayer

Authentication:

every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 10 unrelated applications

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 16 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 16 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 140 users, 3 departments depend on it, alive 2x longer than intended.