Data & Analytics built a cash flow forecast

“We'll add authentication later.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the fax machine is still somehow involved. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Jens, a product owner

Build time:

5 hours 51 minutes

Built with:

a no-code builder on someone's personal account

Database:

Redis, but used permanently

Authentication:

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

Deployment:

restarted manually every Sunday

Responsible:

Anja, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 2.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 231 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 32% chance of becoming business critical, alive 24x longer than intended, the builder has left.