R&D built a knowledge base with a search that does not search

“We can rebuild it properly later.”— Elena, R&D

Reason:

Because the Miro board is now the documentation. Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Elena, a working student

Build time:

3 hours 44 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Jira custom fields, somehow

Authentication:

the password hint contains the password

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 2 months old

Future disaster:

It will survive the official replacement system.

Age: 3.8 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 579 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 100x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.