An intern built a lead scoring system

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Daniel, An intern

Reason:

Mainly because the workaround has been in production for 4 months. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Daniel, someone from Procurement

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

the new database plus the old database "for comparison"

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Miriam, who only knows the database

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

IT has not been informed and will not be

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 26 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 26 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 100% chance of becoming business critical, €60k per year, 29 users.