Dog Shelter Team built an internal URL shortener

“It's in the backlog.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Officially because the backlog contains 62,520 items and one priority. Started as Stock_list_FIXED_old.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Olivier, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a Raspberry Pi with 7 years of production data

Authentication:

the security contact is whoever notices first

Deployment:

running with 98% memory usage and "seems fine"

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

the security review consisted of Priya saying "looks fine"

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 3.3 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1159 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €150k per year, 4 departments depend on it, 26% chance of becoming business critical.