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App #1080 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 868Mythic
The Training Room built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates
🔥 Business critical🧟 Builder has left
Users734
Departments0
Criticality19%
Money involved€4,186,235/yr
“IT would have taken months.”— HR Generalist
- Reason:
- Mainly because the ticket has been open for 209 days. With 2 tests, all skipped.
- Built by:
- Kevin, someone from Procurement
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- Claude, and no one quite sure what it changed
- Database:
- a SharePoint list with 46,976 items
- Authentication:
- the password hint contains the password
- Deployment:
- hosted on Katrin's personal Vercel account
- Responsible:
- Petra, because they clicked "create project" first
- Documentation:
- two architecture diagrams that disagree
- Security situation:
- there is one shared admin account
- Future disaster:
- It will stop working the day the free tier ends.
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → depends on dates staying in DD/MM/YYYY
- → receives production data from an IP address hard-coded in source
- → syncs with Customers_backup.xlsx on a shared drive
Age: 272 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 272 days ago · original builder left 78 days ago
Rated mythic mostly because: €4.2m per year, 734 users, 3 accidental connections.
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