An intern built an NDA generator

“It's basically Power Apps.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the mandatory field is documented as optional. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Daniel, a recruiter

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a SQLite file on a network share

Authentication:

the password manager is a Word document

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Chen, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of copy of copy of Stock_list_FIXED.csv.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 343 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 6 departments depend on it, €118k per year, the builder has left.