Risk Management built a data export tool that exports everything

“IT would have taken months.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". With 496 users and 58 feature requests.

Built by:

Nadia, a recruiter

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a CSV called Stock_list_new2.csv in a shared drive

Authentication:

the production token is in Slack

Deployment:

deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed

Responsible:

Head of Operations, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Olivier is on holiday.

Age: 33 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 186 users, 56% chance of becoming business critical, 2 accidental connections.