Sales built a packaging material inventory

“It's only for one department.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the documentation was last updated 3 months ago. With 508 users and 32 feature requests.

Built by:

Sarah, an analyst

Build time:

4 hours 59 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an API endpoint called /getAllData

Authentication:

the admin page is hidden by removing the link

Deployment:

deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 1 years

Responsible:

Petra, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

a README last updated 209 days ago

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 4.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 132 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 677 users, 3 departments depend on it, alive 26x longer than intended.