The Excel Power Users built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“The data isn't that sensitive.”— Anja, The Excel Power Users

Reason:

Mainly because the backlog contains 152,366 items and one priority. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Anja, a controller

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

a Teams bot nobody remembers installing

Database:

Firestore because the prototype needed to ship by Friday

Authentication:

the intern has production access

Deployment:

last deployed 141 days ago

Responsible:

Kevin, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 769 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 26x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it, €1k per year.