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App #951 · 🇩🇪 Germany
Disaster score 566Rare
Expense Management built a canteen menu app
🔥 Business critical🧟 Builder has left
Users834
Departments0
Criticality14%
Money involved€726,201/yr
“It's faster this way.”— Kevin, Expense Management
- Reason:
- Mainly because the backlog contains 18,446 items and one priority. With 3 tests, all skipped.
- Built by:
- Kevin, a field technician
- Build time:
- 43 minutes
- Built with:
- plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery
- Database:
- a production snapshot from March because restore testing felt risky
- Authentication:
- MFA is enabled for 3 people
- Deployment:
- running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing
- Responsible:
- Finance Business Partner, who delegated it to somebody who left
- Documentation:
- a README describing a version that no longer exists
- Security situation:
- backups use the same password as production
- Future disaster:
- It will eventually process €8,600 per month.
Accidentally connected to (1)
- → depends on a Python script installed globally
Age: 30 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 60 days ago
Rated rare mostly because: 834 users, €726k per year, the builder has left.
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