Someone From Head Office built a spreadsheet version tracker

“It's more of a prototype.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Officially because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". With 436 users and 26 feature requests.

Built by:

Miriam, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

an API endpoint called /getAllData

Authentication:

the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism

Deployment:

restarted manually every Sunday

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

the admin account is also the service account

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 2.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €71k per year, alive 24x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.