Facilities built Excel with a login screen

“It's not really an application.”— Lukas, Facilities

Reason:

Mainly because the roadmap says Q1, but nobody wrote down the year. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Lukas, a product owner

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

the filesystem.

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

deployed Friday at 23:40

Responsible:

Finance Business Partner, who has never opened it

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will send 58,702 duplicate emails.

Age: 2.4 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 92% chance of becoming business critical, 6 departments depend on it, alive 29x longer than intended.