An intern built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“We'll tell Legal if anyone asks.”— Elena, An intern

Reason:

Because the test account belongs to Jens from the management assistant. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Elena, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a production snapshot from August because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the tenant ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 9 months

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 37 comments

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 361 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 85 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €61k per year, alive 17x longer than intended, the builder has left.