The SAP Team built a freight quote calculator

“It's only employee data.”— Jens, The SAP Team

Reason:

Mainly because the Twitter Clone needs 19 clicks and two approvals to close a ticket. With 79 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Jens, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 8 years

Authentication:

the password is stored in a Teams channel called "Passwords"

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

Lukas's memory

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will round money differently from Finance.

Age: 128 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 128 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 3 departments depend on it, it is load bearing.