Quality Assurance built a refund approval tool

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because Customers_new2.csv is stored on Chen's desktop. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Lukas, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

a Teams bot nobody remembers installing

Database:

Daniel's laptop, technically

Authentication:

the API accepts requests from anywhere with confidence

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

Ravi, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 279 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 278 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 801 users, 5 departments depend on it, 2 accidental connections.