Finance built a training completion tracker

“Nobody knows the URL.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because the form contains 60 fields and 5 of them are called "Other". With 111 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Tobias, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a column called do_not_use that is required

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for June and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €176k per year, 2 accidental connections, 2 departments depend on it.