An intern built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

“The password changes every year.”— Marco, An intern

Reason:

Allegedly because the time tracking system logs you out after 7 minutes of inactivity. With a logo generated at 23:19.

Built by:

Marco, an analyst

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an old laptop in the server room

Authentication:

the MFA code is always 000000 in the test environment

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Petra"

Security situation:

password reset emails contain the old password

Future disaster:

It will receive an innovation award.

Age: 150 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 150 days ago · original builder left 82 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 68% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left, 1 departments depend on it.