Dog Shelter Team built a cash flow forecast

“We have a diagram.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Because the workaround has onboarding documentation. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Ravi, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a vector database containing invoices for reasons

Authentication:

the current password ends in 9

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

Miriam, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2019

Security situation:

the API key is shared by 9 applications

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 8.7 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1306 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 106x longer than intended, the builder has left, older than the department using it.