Product built a board reporting portal

“The admin page isn't linked anywhere.”— Nadia, Product

Reason:

Honestly? Because the audit is in 3 weeks. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Nadia, a key account manager

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a folder called DATABASE

Authentication:

the API accepts requests from anywhere with confidence

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

Plant Manager, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 38 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 33 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 1 users, 3% chance of becoming business critical.