IT (yes, really) built a video game

“It has a login screen.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because the deletion process requires a ticket, a manager and 6 approvals. Built in 12 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Kevin, a team lead

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

an Excel file pretending to be a relational database

Authentication:

the production token is in the onboarding document

Deployment:

last deployed 411 days ago

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2020 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 61% chance of becoming business critical, 2 users, alive 2x longer than intended.