Field Service built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“It only has admin access because read-only didn't work.”— Jens, Field Service

Reason:

Honestly? Because the document management system needs 6 clicks and two approvals to book a meeting room. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 411 days ago.

Built by:

Jens, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a SQLite file on a network share

Authentication:

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

Deployment:

running in a Kubernetes cluster created for a proof of concept

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 4.5 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 385 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, alive 79x longer than intended, the builder has left.