Operations built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“Microsoft probably handles that.”— Miriam, Operations

Reason:

Mainly because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €14,000. Started as Suppliers_new.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Miriam, an analyst

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

an SQLite file called DO_NOT_DELETE.db

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

running on port 9000 in production

Responsible:

Nadia, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

comments that say "do not change this"

Security situation:

the security review consisted of Lukas saying "looks fine"

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into SAP and then quietly migrated back.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 79% chance of becoming business critical, 3 accidental connections, alive 68x longer than intended.