The Person Who Knows Excel built a holiday request tool

“We only need it until the migration.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Officially because the workaround has its own workaround. With a logo generated at 14:14.

Built by:

Katrin, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

SharePoint lists pretending to be an application

Database:

Airtable on Nadia's personal plan

Authentication:

the audit log contains passwords

Deployment:

deployed on Thursday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the database is reachable from the public internet

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 3.7 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €398k per year, 2 accidental connections, alive 22x longer than intended.