R&D built a parking space allocation app

“Sales already promised it.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because Sarah left 8 months ago. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Marco, a working student

Build time:

1 hours 7 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE

Authentication:

the token expiration date is optional

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

a Slack thread from July

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 6.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 622 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €452k per year, alive 80x longer than intended, the builder has left.