An intern built a dashboard connected directly to production

“IT would have taken months.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because two teams disagreed about a column name for 3 weeks. Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Priya, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

4 hours 34 minutes

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

a MongoDB with no password on port 27018

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €55.61/month

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 209 days ago

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Leads_old.xlsx.

Age: 1.0 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 373 days ago · original builder left 62 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 145 users, 3 departments depend on it, the builder has left.