Dog Shelter Team built a meeting room booking tool

“It's only 800 lines.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the export button creates Suppliers_new2.xlsm, but nobody knows where. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Marco, an intern

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

Excel macros with network access

Database:

a production snapshot from July because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the encryption key is in the source code

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

Sarah, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Lukas"

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 256 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 77 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, 2 accidental connections, the builder has left.