An intern built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“It's only one container.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Officially because Ravi has the only working copy of Customers_FIXED.xlsx. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Chen, a field technician

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

filenames. The filenames are the database.

Authentication:

the production token is in Slack

Deployment:

hosted on a free trial using Olivier's credit card

Responsible:

Olivier, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for June and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 1.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €2.5m per year, 327 users, 79% chance of becoming business critical.