The COO built a gift and hospitality register

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the budget expires on Sunday. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Petra, a controller

Build time:

3 hours 51 minutes

Built with:

Laravel, maintained by one contractor

Database:

an audit table that nobody has ever queried

Authentication:

MFA is enabled for 2 people

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Thursday, no staging

Responsible:

Bastian, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 8.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 2108 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 151x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.