The Power BI Guy built a margin calculator that Sales is not allowed to see

“Everyone has admin because roles were slowing us down.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Officially because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €799. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Marco, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a Docker volume called prod-2-2 and a prayer

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 4 months

Deployment:

deployed at 23:47 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 4% of records.

Age: 173 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 149 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 571 users, 42% chance of becoming business critical, 2 accidental connections.