Marketing built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“We'll add tests later.”— Elena, Marketing

Reason:

Honestly? Because the process owner is Thomas, who has never used the time tracking system. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Elena, someone from Procurement

Build time:

1 hours 12 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an in-memory dictionary. Restarts are exciting.

Authentication:

MFA is disabled because somebody lost their phone

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 209 days ago

Security situation:

the security review consisted of opening DevTools

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 259 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 402 users, 4 accidental connections, 30% chance of becoming business critical.