Executive Office built a demo environment that became production

“The service account needs those permissions.”— Elena, Executive Office

Reason:

Because Bastian has the only working copy of Customers_final_FINAL_final_FINAL.xlsm. Forked from a tutorial at 14:17 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Elena, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a browser extension that somehow became business critical

Database:

sessionStorage, because localStorage felt too permanent

Authentication:

the tenant ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Sarah's laptop

Responsible:

Jens, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 27 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 56 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 1 accidental connections, 1 departments depend on it.