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App #603 ยท ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
Disaster score 460Rare

Logistics built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

โœจ Friday deployment
Users680
Departments0
Criticality23%
Money involvedโ‚ฌ14,584/yr
โ€œWe'll add tests later.โ€โ€” Head of Operations
Reason:
Officially because the documentation was last updated 8 months ago. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 88 days ago.
Built by:
Marco, a working student
Build time:
a long Thursday
Built with:
a no-code builder on a personal account
Database:
an Access database called copy of copy of Customers_final_final.xlsm with 17 linked tables
Authentication:
the JWT secret is "changeme"
Deployment:
deployed straight to production on a Friday, no staging
Responsible:
"the team", which is Marco
Documentation:
two architecture diagrams that disagree
Security situation:
the temporary firewall rule is 2 months old
Future disaster:
It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Accidentally connected to (4)

  • โ†’ depends on a file somebody overwrites every morning
  • โ†’ depends on a Chrome profile nobody can recreate
  • โ†’ writes directly to the production database
  • โ†’ shares one database user with every internal application

Age: 62 days ยท originally expected to last 3 months ยท 2 owners so far ยท last meaningful change 62 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 680 users, 4 accidental connections, 23% chance of becoming business critical.

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