Legal built a root cause analysis form with five required dropdowns

“The service account needs those permissions.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the customer asked for one tiny change. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Lukas, a recruiter

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

money stored as FLOAT

Authentication:

the user ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

deployed on Friday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

one README with 4 TODOs

Security situation:

there is one shared admin account

Future disaster:

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

Age: 6.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 2226 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 139 users, alive 172x longer than intended, the builder has left.