The New Guy built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“We'll tell Security once it works.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Allegedly because the CEO found the one button that does not work. With a logo generated at 17:13.

Built by:

Petra, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a CSV that gets overwritten every Friday

Authentication:

MFA exists, but everyone clicked "remember this device forever"

Deployment:

deployed from Kevin's laptop

Responsible:

Nadia, according to Jira

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 49 slides

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will overwrite the official data with yesterday's export.

Age: 2.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 727 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 693 users, 97% chance of becoming business critical, alive 35x longer than intended.