Facilities built a sales forecast tool

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Lukas, Facilities

Reason:

Mainly because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Marketing Manager. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Lukas, someone from Procurement

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Cursor, with YOLO mode emotionally enabled

Database:

Kafka. Nobody remembers why.

Authentication:

logging out just hides the menu

Deployment:

running on port 5000 in production

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will become impossible to shut down because 6 other tools depend on it.

Age: 8.9 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 1354 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 38% chance of becoming business critical, alive 54x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.