CEO's Daughter built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

“AWS probably handles that.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Officially because the fax machine is still somehow involved. Forked from a tutorial at 14:04 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Marco, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

the password is stored in a spreadsheet called passwords.xlsx

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 6.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, €127k per year, 2 accidental connections.