CEO Office built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“We didn't have time to wait for IT.”— Olivier, CEO Office

Reason:

Officially because the roadmap says Q4, but nobody wrote down the year. With 132 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Olivier, a product owner

Build time:

1 hours 21 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a second Postgres called production-old, for safety

Authentication:

security by obscurity, but without much obscurity

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Friday, no staging

Responsible:

Tobias, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Olivier, who built it

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Anja.

Age: 1.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: direct production access, 1 accidental connections, alive 8x longer than intended.