An intern built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“IT would have taken months.”— Sofia, An intern

Reason:

Officially because the vendor said it could be ready in Q3, assuming requirements do not change. Forked from a tutorial at 14:18 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Sofia, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a Google Sheet with 1,433 rows and 64 tabs

Authentication:

a URL 76 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

on a Raspberry Pi in the server room

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in July

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will break the day Sofia changes their password.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 541 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.3m per year, 213 users, alive 25x longer than intended.