Field Service built an internal job board with two jobs

“It's only metadata.”— Elena, Field Service

Reason:

Allegedly because the workflow has 68 steps and nobody wants to open it. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 411 days ago.

Built by:

Elena, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

MongoDB where every document has a different schema

Authentication:

there is one account called "user"

Deployment:

last successfully deployed 34 days ago

Responsible:

Miriam, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 12 empty headings

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will receive an innovation award.

Age: 316 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 316 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 departments depend on it, 1 accidental connections, 12 users.