Finance built an org chart nobody updates

“Management asked for it.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Katrin, a working student

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

the audit log is disabled because it filled the disk

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Headcount_new.csv to Nadia

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

there is one shared admin account

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 16 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 16 days ago · original builder left 35 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 80% chance of becoming business critical, 6 departments depend on it, nobody owns it.