The Munich Office built a conflict-of-interest declaration form

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Olivier, The Munich Office

Reason:

Officially because someone called it "basically just CRUD". Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Olivier, a working student

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

one table with 172 columns

Authentication:

every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Daniel, according to nobody except Anja

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

logout only hides the menu

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Petra's credit card expires.

Age: 3.4 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 863 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 89x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.