Executive Office built a decision log nobody reads

“It's basically Power Apps.”— Sarah, Executive Office

Reason:

Mainly because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Friday. With 679 users and 62 feature requests.

Built by:

Sarah, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a column called misc

Authentication:

the security model is a locked office door

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

Kevin, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 13 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 72 users, it is load bearing.