Legal built Excel, but in React

“It's more of a proof of concept.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 5 months. With 73 users and 41 feature requests.

Built by:

Jens, a team lead

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a CSV that gets overwritten every Friday

Authentication:

the incident response plan is "call personName"

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Lukas understands

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 5% of records.

Age: 9.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 36% chance of becoming business critical, alive 37x longer than intended, €30k per year.