Finance built a company-wide announcement tool

“We'll clean it up after the audit.”— Lukas, Finance

Reason:

Mainly because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €799. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Lukas, an intern

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an Access database called Customers_FIXED.xlsx with 13 linked tables

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 8 days

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Ravi, who left

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for April and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 7.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, alive 199x longer than intended, older than the department using it.