HR built a performance review form

“The code is self-documenting.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the correct dropdown option is "Other". With 24 users and 53 feature requests.

Built by:

Chen, a field technician

Build time:

3 hours 20 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 27 days

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 125 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 73% chance of becoming business critical, 45 users, alive 18x longer than intended.