Procurement built a meeting room booking system

“Management asked for it.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €799. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Thomas, an analyst

Build time:

3 hours 52 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

deployed on Tuesday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

Bastian, who only knows the database

Documentation:

a Slack thread from March

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 17 months old

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 407 users, 35% chance of becoming business critical, alive 44x longer than intended.