Operations built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“We didn't have time for architecture.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Officially because the export button creates Suppliers_final_FINAL.csv, but nobody knows where. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Sarah, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

an SQLite file called DO_NOT_DELETE.db

Authentication:

the security contact is whoever notices first

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

Miriam, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 362 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, €44k per year, alive 4x longer than intended.