Facilities built a headcount planning app

“We can rebuild it properly later.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Because somebody watched a 23 minute tutorial. Built in 7 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Lukas, an intern

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

an old laptop in the server room

Authentication:

the password policy requires changing it every 30 days, so everyone adds 1

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Friday, no staging

Responsible:

Daniel, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 309 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 309 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 15x longer than intended, deployed on a Friday, 1 users.