Dog Shelter Team built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“Nobody would want this data.”— Petra, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Mainly because Jens left 3 months ago. Already exported 205,973 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Petra, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a global JavaScript variable

Authentication:

the security model is "it is behind Cloudflare"

Deployment:

running in a region 3 time zones away from its users

Responsible:

Head of Operations, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 3.7 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 51% chance of becoming business critical, alive 44x longer than intended, 1 users.