R&D built an app only Kevin knows exists

“It's faster this way.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Allegedly because the API documentation says "ask Petra". With 32 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Thomas, someone from Procurement

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

Elasticsearch, now also storing the invoices

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

Marco, according to Jira

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by another tool built by Priya.

Age: 71 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 71 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 78 users, alive 10x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.