Logistics built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the Miro board is now the documentation. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Elena, a recruiter

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

Sarah's laptop, technically

Authentication:

the password is "Password1!" because it meets the policy

Deployment:

deployed 48 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

Thomas, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

a 48 minute screen recording

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Elena, who built it

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 340 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 340 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €395k per year, 27% chance of becoming business critical, alive 16x longer than intended.