Business Process Management built a webinar registration dashboard

“We'll migrate it eventually.”— Marco, Business Process Management

Reason:

Honestly? Because the source of truth depends on which department you ask. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Marco, an analyst

Build time:

3 hours 56 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

the old database because migration is scheduled for Q2

Authentication:

the secret is in Git history, so deleting it felt pointless

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

Katrin, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will cause IT to ask "what server?".

Age: 3.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €493k per year, alive 42x longer than intended, 1 users.