Procurement built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

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

Reason:

Honestly? Because the correct dropdown option is "Other". With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Elena, a team lead

Build time:

1 hours 4 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a production table where the primary key is the customer's name

Authentication:

the certificate expired 141 days ago

Deployment:

deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed

Responsible:

Anja, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the audit log also contains passwords

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 283 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €178k per year, 2 accidental connections, direct production access.