ESG built a custom reporting engine that generates one report

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the workaround has its own workaround. With a logo generated at 16:27.

Built by:

Elena, a product owner

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a SharePoint list with 129,090 items

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named test-backup-final

Responsible:

Petra, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Sarah leaves the company.

Age: 265 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 106 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 38x longer than intended, the builder has left, 12% chance of becoming business critical.