Administration built a dependency register

“It's only for one department.”— Kevin, Administration

Reason:

Honestly? Because the lunch prototype is now business critical. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Kevin, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Redis, permanently

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

the user ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

last successfully deployed 623 days ago

Responsible:

Petra, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

a 72 minute screen recording

Security situation:

the audit log records "updated successfully"

Future disaster:

It will gain 52 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 251 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 147x longer than intended, 3 departments depend on it, the builder has left.