Sales built an NDA generator

“It's basically done.”— Elena, Sales

Reason:

Officially because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Plant Manager. With 57 users and 49 feature requests.

Built by:

Elena, a team lead

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a column called misc2 because misc was already taken

Authentication:

the guest Wi-Fi password is also the admin password

Deployment:

last deployed 34 days ago

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Slack thread from September

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 2.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 129 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 30x longer than intended, the builder has left, 1 accidental connections.