Procurement built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“It has a login screen.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because the tiny change needs approval from 2 people. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Daniel, someone from Procurement

Build time:

1 hours 45 minutes

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

the production token is in the onboarding document

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

Petra, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2019

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will email the entire customer list to one customer.

Age: 21 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 51 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, 119 users, the builder has left.