Business Development built a parking complaint portal

“We'll clean it up after launch.”— Jens, Business Development

Reason:

Honestly? Because the vendor said it could be ready in Q2, assuming requirements do not change. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Jens, someone from Procurement

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an API endpoint called /getAllData

Authentication:

the API key is shared with three vendors and one intern

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

Tobias and Katrin, who each think the other owns it

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Jens"

Security situation:

the admin account is also the service account

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 11:25.

Age: 5.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 67x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 19% chance of becoming business critical.