Finance built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“We'll put it on the roadmap.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the CEO asked for it in a corridor on a Friday. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Jens, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a SQL Server instance called final that nobody is allowed to restart

Authentication:

security by obscurity, but without much obscurity

Deployment:

deployed on Tuesday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

Kevin, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2031.

Age: 289 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 289 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €148k per year, 2 departments depend on it, alive 14x longer than intended.