Facility Services built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“It's only for one department.”— Kevin, Facility Services

Reason:

Honestly? Because the last person who understood it left 8 months ago. Already exported 168,215 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Kevin, a working student

Build time:

3 hours 49 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an SQLite file called app_final_2.db

Authentication:

the password manager is a Word document

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 7 minutes to load

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2034.

Age: 2.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 197 users, 4 departments depend on it, alive 26x longer than intended.