Marketing built a price list with its own opinions

“We only need it for this quarter.”— Miriam, Marketing

Reason:

Honestly? Because the workflow has 93 steps and nobody wants to open it. With a logo generated at 11:24.

Built by:

Miriam, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

89,107 XML files

Authentication:

the admin route is called /secret

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

HR Generalist, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 8.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1404 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 54x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.