The Power BI Guy built a loading dock scheduler

“It has HTTPS.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Because the spreadsheet has 167,062 rows and 53 tabs. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Priya, a key account manager

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a CSV that gets overwritten every Friday

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

Ravi, according to Jira

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will send 153,451 duplicate emails.

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €423k per year, 6 departments depend on it, alive 68x longer than intended.