Sales built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

“It's anonymised-ish.”— Marco, Sales

Reason:

Mainly because the documentation describes a button that no longer exists. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Marco, the management assistant

Build time:

4 hours 8 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

the legacy system's database through a read-only user with write permissions

Authentication:

the security model is "it is behind Cloudflare"

Deployment:

deployed at 09:18 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

Ravi, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 8.3 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €108k per year, alive 144x longer than intended, older than the department using it.