The Berlin Office built a pool vehicle damage tracker

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Because someone built a prototype during lunch. With 905 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Jens, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

two databases kept "mostly in sync"

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 623 days

Deployment:

deployed from Chen's laptop

Responsible:

Priya, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €49 per month.

Age: 44 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 44 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, 111 users, €141 per year.