Finance built an org chart nobody updates

“Microsoft probably handles that.”— Marco, Finance

Reason:

Allegedly because the vendor said it could be ready in Q3, assuming requirements do not change. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Marco, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 3 years

Authentication:

the security model is a locked office door

Deployment:

behind a domain registered for €12 during a workshop

Responsible:

Ravi, according to Jira

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

the pentest report is still marked draft

Future disaster:

It will send 184,528 duplicate emails.

Age: 3.9 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €2.4m per year, 642 users, alive 16x longer than intended.