The AI Steering Committee built a DPIA generator

“We'll add SSO later.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Because the customer asked for one tiny change. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Elena, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a production snapshot from June because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the backend trusts whatever role the frontend sends

Deployment:

hosted in Petra's Azure subscription

Responsible:

Thomas and Anja, who each think the other owns it

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 57 slides

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 5.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 246 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 63% chance of becoming business critical, alive 63x longer than intended, the builder has left.