Document Management built a territory planner

“We'll migrate it eventually.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the approval chain includes 5 people and one shared mailbox. With a logo generated at 17:46.

Built by:

Elena, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Teams bot nobody remembers installing

Database:

an in-memory dictionary. Restarts are exciting.

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 141 days ago

Security situation:

security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 8.1 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 1463 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 212x longer than intended, 69 users, 26% chance of becoming business critical.