Controlling built a printer toner request form

“It's only 800 lines.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Allegedly because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Kevin, the management assistant

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE

Authentication:

Katrin knows the password

Deployment:

deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 1.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, €57k per year, alive 18x longer than intended.