HR built a third CRM

“It's anonymised-ish.”— Lukas, HR

Reason:

Honestly? Because the ticket has been open for 317 days. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Lukas, someone from Procurement

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

a SQL Server instance called production that nobody is allowed to restart

Authentication:

there is one account called "user"

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

Katrin, according to Jira

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 305 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 305 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €456k per year, 18% chance of becoming business critical, alive 10x longer than intended.