Facilities built a compliance evidence collector

“The code is self-documenting.”— Elena, Facilities

Reason:

Officially because the form contains 59 fields and 4 of them are called "Other". Started as copy of copy of Leads_use-this-one_old.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Elena, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Access, because the database was already there

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

the username and password are printed on the login page

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

Olivier, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

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

Age: 6.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1664 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 470 users, alive 337x longer than intended, the builder has left.