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App #1397 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 340Rare
Reception built a rota planner
Users6
Departments0
Criticality23%
Money involved€9/yr
“It's just a cron job.”— Anja, Reception
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the dashboard is updated manually every Friday. Quietly rolled out to three countries.
- Built by:
- Anja, a key account manager
- Build time:
- one weekend
- Built with:
- SharePoint lists pretending to be an application
- Database:
- one table called everything
- Authentication:
- the password is the company name plus 2025
- Deployment:
- kept alive by a scheduled task every 7 minutes
- Responsible:
- IT, according to Finance
- Documentation:
- a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 88 days ago
- Security situation:
- it was reviewed once, by Anja, who built it
- Future disaster:
- It will stop working after someone renames a column.
Accidentally connected to (4)
- → polls a CSV file for changes
- → posts into a Slack channel that was archived
- → depends on dates staying in DD/MM/YYYY
- → depends on somebody forwarding an email
Age: 17 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 17 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 23% chance of becoming business critical, 6 users.
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