Procurement built a fleet mileage tracker

“It's basically Power Apps.”— Jens, Procurement

Reason:

Honestly? Because Sarah from Procurement is on holiday until January. Already exported 141,307 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Jens, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a backup strategy consisting of Anja copying the folder on Fridays

Authentication:

the password hint contains the password

Deployment:

behind a domain registered for €5 during a workshop

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 346 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 346 days ago · original builder left 231 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 285 users, 3 departments depend on it, €62k per year.