HR built a barcode scanner that only works on one phone

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 623 days. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Chen, a key account manager

Build time:

4 hours 37 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a column called misc

Authentication:

the password is the company name backwards

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 10 unrelated applications

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Nadia, who left

Security situation:

the certificate expired 34 days ago

Future disaster:

It will cause IT to ask "what server?".

Age: 7.9 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €159k per year, 72 users, alive 48x longer than intended.