Reception built a PPE issue register

“It's only 800 lines.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because two teams disagreed about a column name for 3 weeks. With 1401 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Katrin, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a column called misc

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2024

Deployment:

running on port 8080 in production

Responsible:

Priya and Priya, who each think the other owns it

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

backups use the same password as production

Future disaster:

It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, 1 users.