CEO Office built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €83,000. With 64 users and 22 feature requests.

Built by:

Priya, a recruiter

Build time:

2 hours 28 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

one table called data

Authentication:

every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Regional Sales Lead, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

comments that say "do not change this"

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 8.2 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 2241 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 484 users, alive 142x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections.