CEO's Daughter built an AI chatbot for an undefined reason

“We just need it until SAP is updated.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because copy of copy of Stock_list_new2.xlsx is stored on Chen's desktop. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 209 days ago.

Built by:

Petra, the management assistant

Build time:

3 hours 54 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an API endpoint called /getAllData

Authentication:

the security contact is whoever notices first

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Tuesday, no staging

Responsible:

Anja, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 40 slides

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 5.3 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 69% chance of becoming business critical, 99 users, alive 93x longer than intended.