The Munich Office built a risk matrix with 47 shades of yellow

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Sofia, The Munich Office

Reason:

Honestly? Because Sarah has the only working copy of copy of copy of Customers_backup_use-this-one.xlsx. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Sofia, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

the production token is in a Jira ticket

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

the app is secure because the browser shows a padlock

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 100 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 100 days ago · original builder left 32 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 6 users, alive 3x longer than intended.