The AI Taskforce built a refund approval tool

“It has HTTPS.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because the ticket system is only reachable on the VPN, which drops every 27 minutes. Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Priya, an analyst

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

MongoDB where every document has a different schema

Authentication:

the audit log is console.log

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2021

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Age: 7.2 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 2259 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 373x longer than intended, 49 users, nobody owns it.