CEO's Daughter built a supplier scorecard

“The password is really long.”— Marco, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Mainly because the project has been 90% finished for 14 months. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Marco, a product owner

Build time:

4 hours 54 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a SQLite file on a network share

Authentication:

the encryption key is in a comment explaining not to share it

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Sofia understands

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 3.4 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 281 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 208 users, alive 88x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.