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Transport moved to production on a Friday afternoon. Payroll stopped running for 2,200 employees.
The BASIS team assured everyone it was "just a config change" and it would take ten minutes. It had modified a payroll schema variant. Nobody caught it until Monday morning when the first payroll run failed silently. The fix took until Wednesday.
Lesson learned
No transports to production on a Friday. No exceptions, no urgency overrides, no escalation paths around it. If it can't wait until Monday it shouldn't be a Friday afternoon transport.
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