HR built a deployment button

“We'll add tests later.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the CEO tested it on an iPad. With a logo generated at 11:52.

Built by:

Petra, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 6.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 69% chance of becoming business critical, €302k per year, 5 departments depend on it.