The Reporting Team built a territory planner

“We didn't have time for architecture.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because the process has 17 steps, 2 of which are "send an email". With 936 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Bastian, a controller

Build time:

5 hours 27 minutes

Built with:

Python, Flask and no requirements.txt

Database:

the production database, directly, with write access

Authentication:

the secret is in Git history, so deleting it felt pointless

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 3 minutes

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €2,400 to the wrong country.

Age: 3.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 47% chance of becoming business critical, €111k per year, direct production access.