HR built an NPS survey with one respondent

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Because the process requires signatures from 6 people. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Tobias, a team lead

Build time:

1 hours 35 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a database on Sarah's laptop

Authentication:

the secret is in Git history, so deleting it felt pointless

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

IT Service Desk, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a Miro board with 228 sticky notes

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 44x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it, 1 users.