HR built a barcode scanner that only works on one phone

“We'll add authentication later.”— Sofia, HR

Reason:

Mainly because the Miro board is now the documentation. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Sofia, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a Kubernetes PersistentVolume nobody wants to delete

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

behind a domain registered for €5 during a workshop

Responsible:

Ravi, who inherited it from Sofia by accident

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 9 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 268 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 201 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 28% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left, alive 3x longer than intended.