The Management Assistant built a company-wide announcement tool

“We'll add backups later.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because somebody watched a 23 minute tutorial. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Olivier, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a database on Priya's laptop

Authentication:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Priya, informally

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.

Age: 7.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 1405 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €205k per year, alive 391x longer than intended, the builder has left.