Maintenance built a rota planner

“It's internal.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because the vendor quoted 18 months and two workshops. Built in one weekend and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Chen, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Lovable, and a pinch of stupidity

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

Tobias thinks Nadia knows the password

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Lukas's laptop

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 186 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 76 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €50k per year, nobody owns it, the builder has left.