Sales built a lead scoring system

“The database isn't exposed. I think.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. With 9 users and 75 feature requests.

Built by:

Miriam, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a backup called backup-final-July.zip

Authentication:

the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called test

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

CORS is set to * because it fixed the issue

Future disaster:

It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Age: 2.0 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 435 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 505 users, €473k per year, the builder has left.