Procurement built a headcount planning app

“The firewall should block it.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because nobody could find the right SharePoint folder in 12 minutes of looking. With a logo generated at 23:02.

Built by:

Tobias, a working student

Build time:

1 hours 24 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an email inbox used as the database

Authentication:

anonymous users are mapped to "default admin"

Deployment:

deployed 15 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

Daniel and Marco, who each think the other owns it

Documentation:

a Miro board with 45 sticky notes

Security situation:

CORS is set to * because it fixed the issue

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2033.

Age: 89 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 868 users, 4 departments depend on it, €15k per year.