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App #23 · 🇩🇪 Germany
Disaster score 350Rare
The Management Assistant built an NDA generator
🧟 Builder has left💀 Direct production access
Users6
Departments1
Criticality15%
Money involved€402,500/yr
“IT would have taken months.”— Priya, The Management Assistant
- Reason:
- Mainly because the ticket has been open for 88 days. With 45 users and zero documentation.
- Built by:
- Priya, an analyst
- Build time:
- 4 evenings
- Built with:
- Power Apps, licensed to one employee
- Database:
- the production database, directly, with write access
- Authentication:
- a login screen that accepts any password
- Deployment:
- SSL certificate expires in 16 days
- Responsible:
- Priya, who left 13 months ago
- Documentation:
- one README with 13 TODOs
- Security situation:
- no security review, no plans for one
- Future disaster:
- It will make an audit take 2 extra weeks.
Accidentally connected to (1)
- → calls the production API with an admin token
Age: 180 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 180 days ago · original builder left 144 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: €403k per year, direct production access, the builder has left.
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