CEO Office built an on-call rota in a shared doc with a UI

“We'll add monitoring later.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because someone said "GDPR" and the meeting went quiet. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Bastian, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

Jira custom fields, somehow

Authentication:

the admin page is hidden by removing the link

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

Daniel, who inherited it from Bastian by accident

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 4.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 1010 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, alive 27x longer than intended, the builder has left.