Procurement built a credit limit approval tool

“We only need it until the consultant comes back.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Bastian, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a column called misc

Authentication:

the password is the company name backwards

Deployment:

restarted manually every Wednesday

Responsible:

Katrin, who only knows the database

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

debug mode is enabled in production

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, €42k per year, alive 10x longer than intended.