The Reporting Team built a screenshot-to-Excel workflow

“It's basically an internal tool.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Officially because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 2 months. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Jens, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a REST API generated by something nobody can regenerate

Database:

money stored as FLOAT

Authentication:

the admin password is Sofia123

Deployment:

running on a server last patched 209 days ago

Responsible:

Bastian, informally

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2019 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

the audit log also contains passwords

Future disaster:

It will become impossible to shut down because 5 other tools depend on it.

Age: 5.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 147x longer than intended, 23% chance of becoming business critical, older than the department using it.