Dog Shelter Team built yet another project tracker

“We have a README.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the lunch prototype is now business critical. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Miriam, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

Airtable on Thomas's personal plan

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 11 days

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Petra, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €570k per year, 43% chance of becoming business critical, 2 accidental connections.