Dog Shelter Team built a data export tool that exports everything

“We'll tell Security once it works.”— Lukas, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Mainly because the tiny change needs approval from 6 people. Built in 2 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Lukas, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

Chen's laptop, technically

Authentication:

the logout button is on the roadmap

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 42 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 42 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 departments depend on it, 19 users, €7k per year.