Product built a headcount planning app

“We'll add monitoring later.”— Bastian, Product

Reason:

Honestly? Because the vendor said it could be ready in Q3, assuming requirements do not change. With 162 users and 62 feature requests.

Built by:

Bastian, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Bootstrap 3 and a dream

Database:

Notion, with one row per customer

Authentication:

there is one account called "user"

Deployment:

running on a server last patched 88 days ago

Responsible:

Jens, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 312 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 312 days ago · original builder left 149 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €190k per year, the builder has left, alive 5x longer than intended.