Corporate Communications built a spreadsheet version tracker

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the demo environment contains real customer data. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Katrin, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an AI agent with production credentials

Database:

a Kubernetes PersistentVolume nobody wants to delete

Authentication:

the security model is a locked office door

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

Tobias and Nadia, who each think the other owns it

Documentation:

Lukas's memory

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Katrin, who built it

Future disaster:

It will gain 304 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 13 days ago · original builder left 30 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 17% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users.