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App #169 · 🇩🇪 Germany
Disaster score 228Common
The Management Assistant built a customer portal
☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left
Users2
Departments0
Criticality6%
Money involved€0/yr
“The AI understands the code.”— Chen, The Management Assistant
- Reason:
- Honestly? Because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". With 113 users and 25 feature requests.
- Built by:
- Chen, a product owner
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- Google Apps Script
- Database:
- a SharePoint list with 145,745 items
- Authentication:
- the role is stored in localStorage
- Deployment:
- behind a domain registered for €12 during a workshop
- Responsible:
- Bastian, according to nobody except Thomas
- Documentation:
- a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"
- Security situation:
- the security review consisted of opening DevTools
- Future disaster:
- It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT must stop.
Accidentally connected to (2)
- → depends on a vendor account nobody can log into
- → calls an API marked deprecated
Age: 4.9 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 463 days ago
Rated common mostly because: alive 84x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections, nobody owns it.
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