Marketing built a customer feedback wall

“We'll add backups later.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the bug is now documented behaviour. With a logo generated at 16:45.

Built by:

Petra, a key account manager

Build time:

1 hours 38 minutes

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

a production table with no primary key

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

deployed every time Daniel remembers

Responsible:

Managing Director, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

there is one shared admin account

Future disaster:

It will receive an innovation award.

Age: 7.3 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 351 users, alive 127x longer than intended, older than the department using it.