Colleague #4-20: Build various integrations to database, all with their own ways of storing credentials.
Colleague #2: "It's really past due time to change the database password, but first we have to make sure all critical systems can still access the database."
Which is why forward planning and prompt action is worth so much.
I know I'm stating the obvious, but I've seen some worrying attitudes of "just in time" that seem to go hand in hand with a misunderstanding of Scrum Sprints or Kanban. Where people concentrate on the tree and ignore the vast interconnected forest around them.
Colleague #2: "It's really past due time to change the database password, but first we have to make sure all critical systems can still access the database."