Quality Assurance built a timesheet app because the other timesheet app sucks

“Nobody knows the URL.”— Elena, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Officially because someone built a prototype during lunch. With 21 users and 28 feature requests.

Built by:

Elena, a recruiter

Build time:

4 hours 4 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a SQLite file inside a Docker volume nobody has backed up

Authentication:

the read-only account can update records

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 15 minutes

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will email the entire customer list to one customer.

Age: 3.4 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 59x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it, 3 users.