Facilities built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the roadmap says Q3, but nobody wrote down the year. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Sarah, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

a global JavaScript variable

Authentication:

CSRF protection was disabled during debugging

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

Sarah, a controller. Only Sarah.

Documentation:

a Word document called Leads_use-this-one_new2.xlsm

Security situation:

debug mode is enabled in production

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 7.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 197x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 accidental connections.