Facility Services built a product catalogue that disagrees with the product catalogue

“The customer already saw the demo.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Honestly? Because the documentation starts with "TODO". Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Priya, a team lead

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a MySQL database called test-2 on a machine under a desk

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

nobody officially, Kevin emotionally

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Kevin"

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 7% of records.

Age: 7.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 1204 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 44x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.