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App #1285 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 340Rare
The SharePoint Team built an asset register for 400 laptops
Users8
Departments0
Criticality15%
Money involved€21,561/yr
“It's technically not production.”— Marco, The SharePoint Team
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the approval requires 4 people for a €799 purchase. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.
- Built by:
- Marco, the management assistant
- Build time:
- an afternoon, mostly
- Built with:
- Python and a cron job on a laptop
- Database:
- an array.
- Authentication:
- a URL 64 characters long, which counts as security
- Deployment:
- running on a laptop with 14% battery
- Responsible:
- Sofia, who insists they are not the owner
- Documentation:
- a Confluence page copied from another project
- Security situation:
- all users technically have admin permissions
- Future disaster:
- It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → depends on Priya remembering to open Excel
- → depends on a Windows scheduled task
- → depends on a Chrome profile nobody can recreate
- → depends on a personal Gmail inbox
Age: 4.3 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, alive 74x longer than intended, €22k per year.
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