The SharePoint Team built a remote work request form

“We'll tell Legal if anyone asks.”— Sofia, The SharePoint Team

Reason:

Allegedly because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Sofia, a key account manager

Build time:

3 hours 21 minutes

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"

Authentication:

the security model is "it is behind Cloudflare"

Deployment:

running with 80% memory usage and "seems fine"

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

Anja's memory

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 193 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 193 days ago · original builder left 153 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 320 users, 4 departments depend on it, the builder has left.