Quality Assurance built a demo environment that became production

“AWS probably handles that.”— Kevin, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Mainly because the workshop produced a Miro board with 128 sticky notes. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Kevin, the management assistant

Build time:

1 hours 58 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a Google Sheet with an Apps Script nobody remembers writing

Authentication:

the security model is a locked office door

Deployment:

deployed at 16:25 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

Olivier, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Age: 2.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 372 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 281 users, alive 53x longer than intended, the builder has left.