Procurement built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“We'll add authentication later.”— Sofia, Procurement

Reason:

Allegedly because Friday at 16:02 seemed like a reasonable time to deploy. Forked from a tutorial at 16:53 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Sofia, someone from Procurement

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

GitHub Issues. Yes, production data.

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

deployed at 09:01 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

Nadia, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Ravi, who left

Security situation:

the security exception expires every year and is renewed every year

Future disaster:

It will cause Legal to ask "who approved this?".

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 57% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users.