Field Service built a barcode scanner that only works on one phone

“It's basically done.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Because the tiny change needs approval from 5 people. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Jens, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a GitHub Gist that became business critical

Authentication:

the logout button is on the roadmap

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Ravi, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 10 empty headings

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will round money differently from Finance.

Age: 6.5 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 348 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 284 users, alive 39x longer than intended, the builder has left.