Reception built an app only Kevin knows exists

“It's only employee data.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the integration works unless it is Friday. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Katrin, someone from Procurement

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

a Teams bot nobody remembers installing

Database:

a database on Anja's laptop

Authentication:

the VPN password is the Wi-Fi password

Deployment:

running with 94% disk usage

Responsible:

Bastian, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

every error response includes the full stack trace

Future disaster:

It will cause Legal to ask "who approved this?".

Age: 9.2 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 2969 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, alive 481x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections.