Sales built Excel, but in React

“We'll tell Legal if anyone asks.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Allegedly because someone said "just add AI". With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Petra, someone from Procurement

Build time:

4 hours 50 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a production table where the primary key is the customer's name

Authentication:

the security review happened after the incident

Deployment:

running with 97% disk usage

Responsible:

Anja, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 54 slides

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €799 to the wrong country.

Age: 7.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1867 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 836 users, 71% chance of becoming business critical, 4 departments depend on it.