Quality Assurance built a knowledge base with a search that does not search

“It's basically Power Apps.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because somebody watched a 22 minute tutorial. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Anja, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

Katrin's laptop, technically

Authentication:

the password hint contains the password

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

Sarah, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Tobias about.

Age: 9.1 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 175 users, €52k per year, alive 37x longer than intended.