Facilities built an on-call rota in a shared doc with a UI

“It's not indexed.”— Sofia, Facilities

Reason:

Allegedly because the temporary solution has survived 4 managers. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Sofia, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

Git commits, technically append-only

Authentication:

authorization is handled in the UI

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named temp

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 8 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the last security review happened before the application existed

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 67 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 67 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €382k per year, 5 departments depend on it, 38% chance of becoming business critical.