The SAP Team built a lead scoring system

“AWS probably handles that.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €49. Started as Budget2026_use-this-one_final.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Elena, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a CSV called Stock_list_old.xlsx in a shared drive

Authentication:

the password manager is someone's browser

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2019

Responsible:

Daniel, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

backups use the same password as production

Future disaster:

It will survive the official replacement system.

Age: 4.7 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 19x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections, 9 users.