Quality Assurance built a barcode scanner that only works on one phone

“Everyone has admin because roles were slowing us down.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the bug is now documented behaviour. Already exported 39,548 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Katrin, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a SQLite file on a network share

Authentication:

the write-only account can also read

Deployment:

running on a VM with 4 GB of free disk space

Responsible:

Group Controller, who has never opened it

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

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

Age: 7.1 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 153 users, alive 29x longer than intended, older than the department using it.