The Remote Team built yet another project tracker

“Google probably handles that.”— Katrin, The Remote Team

Reason:

Honestly? Because the audit is in 10 weeks. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Katrin, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Excel macros with network access

Database:

an FTP server containing folders called NEW, NEW2 and FINAL

Authentication:

the username and password are printed on the login page

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

Sarah, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

debug mode is enabled in production

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Lukas is on holiday.

Age: 5.6 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 666 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €662k per year, 37 users, alive 34x longer than intended.