The Power BI Guy built a third CRM

“The data is mostly public anyway.”— Bastian, The Power BI Guy

Reason:

Because the roadmap says Q4, but nobody wrote down the year. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Bastian, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

SAP, indirectly, through 5 CSV exports

Authentication:

the security model is "we have antivirus"

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called fix-prod

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a 80 minute screen recording

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 147 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 147 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 19% chance of becoming business critical, 1 departments depend on it.