A Project Team That No Longer Exists built a canned response manager

“It's only one database.”— Sarah, A Project Team That No Longer Exists

Reason:

Mainly because two teams disagreed about a column name for 9 weeks. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Sarah, a recruiter

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

MongoDB, because the schema was 'still evolving'

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

the role is a query parameter

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

Miriam, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

It will receive an innovation award.

Age: 172 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 12x longer than intended, 1 users, €475 per year.