IT (yes, really) built a bonus calculator

“We'll tell Legal if anyone asks.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because the shared password was last changed 11 days ago. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Chen, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a webhook pointed at someone's ngrok tunnel

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

the certificate is self-signed and everybody clicked through

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Olivier, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a README containing 17 broken links

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 8.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €351k per year, alive 151x longer than intended, older than the department using it.