Procurement built a company-wide announcement tool

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Petra, Procurement

Reason:

Mainly because the spreadsheet has 208,317 rows and 31 tabs. With 175 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Petra, a working student

Build time:

2 hours 34 minutes

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

deployed every time Elena remembers

Responsible:

Tobias, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

backups use the same password as production

Future disaster:

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

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 208 users, 42% chance of becoming business critical, 1 accidental connections.