Master Data Management built a churn reason database

“It's anonymised-ish.”— Tobias, Master Data Management

Reason:

Honestly? Because Thomas from Master Data Management is on holiday until May. Already exported 89,827 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Tobias, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

the new database plus the old database "for comparison"

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

deployed from Miriam's laptop

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €945/day through a third party

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 485 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.4m per year, 175 users, alive 29x longer than intended.