IT (yes, really) built a licence renewal reminder

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the official form has 55 fields and not the one that matters. Already exported 230,978 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Kevin, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Jira custom fields, somehow

Authentication:

SSO, but only for Olivier

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 3 unrelated applications

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 8.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 1805 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 444x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.