Finance built a video game

“It has HTTPS.”— Marco, Finance

Reason:

Allegedly because the approval chain includes 3 people and one shared mailbox. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 209 days ago.

Built by:

Marco, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

an audit table that nobody has ever queried

Authentication:

the password is stored in a spreadsheet called passwords.xlsx

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 8 minutes

Responsible:

nobody officially, Ravi emotionally

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2020 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

IT has not been informed and will not be

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 303 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 224 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 591 users, 3 departments depend on it, alive 43x longer than intended.