Marketing built Excel with a login screen

“It's in the backlog.”— Elena, Marketing

Reason:

Mainly because the Miro board is now the documentation. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Elena, the management assistant

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a SharePoint list with 213,292 items

Authentication:

the VPN password is the Wi-Fi password

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Wednesday, no staging

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 94 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 94 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 72% chance of becoming business critical, 4 accidental connections, 79 users.