Executive Office built a meeting action tracker

“The password is really long.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the customer asked for one tiny change. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Sarah, a recruiter

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

an internal API copied from a Stack Overflow answer

Database:

booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"

Authentication:

the certificate expired 34 days ago

Deployment:

running with 97% memory usage and "seems fine"

Responsible:

nobody officially, Tobias emotionally

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

the admin account is also the service account

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 7.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 1308 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 107 users, €101k per year.