Marketing built a second CRM

“We only need it for this quarter.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because the HR system needs 17 clicks and two approvals to tell someone they are on holiday. With 110 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Petra, an analyst

Build time:

2 hours 9 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

an SQLite file called data.db

Authentication:

authorization is handled in the UI

Deployment:

deployed on Tuesday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Petra, who built it

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Jens is on holiday.

Age: 218 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 218 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, alive 4x longer than intended, €3k per year.