Finance built an NPS survey with one respondent

“It's more of a prototype.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the budget expires on Sunday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Tobias, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE

Authentication:

the certificate is self-signed and everybody clicked through

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

nobody officially, Tobias emotionally

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 515 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, alive 31x longer than intended, nobody owns it.