Payroll built a price list with its own opinions

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Nadia, Payroll

Reason:

Mainly because the documentation was last updated 13 months ago. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Nadia, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a no-code builder on someone's personal account

Database:

a backup strategy consisting of Chen copying the folder on Fridays

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

Sofia, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 7 minutes to load

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 4 times.

Age: 3.1 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 70% chance of becoming business critical, 4 departments depend on it, alive 54x longer than intended.