The COO built a lost parcel tracker

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the temporary solution has survived 2 managers. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Lukas, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Zapier being used as middleware

Database:

an Outlook shared mailbox with 11,972 unread records

Authentication:

the guest account can see more than expected

Deployment:

running with 94% disk usage

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 45 slides

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 18 months old

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 127 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 127 days ago · original builder left 39 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 133 users, the builder has left, €12k per year.