IT (yes, really) built a price list with its own opinions

“It's only temporary.”— Daniel, IT (yes, really)

Reason:

Officially because the dropdown contains 316 options. With 33 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Daniel, a product owner

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

dates stored as text in 7 different formats

Authentication:

backups are encrypted with the same password as production

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 7.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1523 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 45x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.