Finance built a PTO approval app

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Lukas, Finance

Reason:

Honestly? Because the deletion process requires a ticket, a manager and 7 approvals. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Lukas, someone from Procurement

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an Excel file pretending to be a relational database

Authentication:

TLS is enabled, certificate warnings are ignored

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 4 days

Responsible:

Bastian, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Tobias, who left

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Thomas about.

Age: 44 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 44 days ago · original builder left 58 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 15 users, alive 1x longer than intended.