Dog Shelter Team built a DPIA generator

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Because the automation sends an email asking someone to do it manually. Already exported 224,190 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Daniel, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

GitHub Issues. Yes, production data.

Authentication:

the session cookie expires in 10 years

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2023

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

Ravi's memory

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 8.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 108 users, alive 54x longer than intended.