Marketing built Excel with a login screen

“It's anonymised-ish.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the ticket has been open for 11 days. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.

Built by:

Jens, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a column called do_not_use that is required

Authentication:

the read-only account can update records

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Wednesday, no staging

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 18 months

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

the app is secure because the browser shows a padlock

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Ravi.

Age: 9.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 50% chance of becoming business critical, alive 473x longer than intended, older than the department using it.