IT (yes, really) built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“We can rebuild it properly later.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". With 67 users and 63 feature requests.

Built by:

Olivier, an intern

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a Map().

Authentication:

there is one account called "admin" and nobody knows who owns it

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

Olivier, who has not touched it in 17 months

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will become impossible to shut down because 4 other tools depend on it.

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 2 departments depend on it, alive 13x longer than intended.