Revenue Operations built a wellbeing survey dashboard

“We'll add SSO later.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Allegedly because the CEO found the one button that does not work. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Miriam, a key account manager

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

Redis, permanently

Database:

a MySQL database called temp-backup on a machine under a desk

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 34 days

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 5.0 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 436 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 261x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.