The Management Assistant built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“IT would have taken months.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the tiny change needs approval from 3 people. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE_OLD

Authentication:

the password is "Password1!" because it meets the policy

Deployment:

deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed

Responsible:

"the team", which is Priya

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 209 days ago

Security situation:

the service account is also a real employee

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 7.3 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 425 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 192x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.