Dog Shelter Team built an org chart nobody updates

“We have a README.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Honestly? Because the last person who understood it left 6 months ago. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Elena, an analyst

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

the security review happened after the incident

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 7 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.

Future disaster:

It will stop working the day the free tier ends.

Age: 272 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 69 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €212k per year, alive 39x longer than intended, the builder has left.