Supply Chain built a custom ERP for one department

“Nobody knows the URL.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because the form contains 52 fields and 8 of them are called "Other". Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Nadia, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

two databases kept "mostly in sync"

Authentication:

an API key in the frontend bundle

Deployment:

deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 7 years

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a README containing 14 broken links

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Age: 8.0 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 1346 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 236 users, alive 48x longer than intended, nobody owns it.