Legal built an on-call rota in a shared doc with a UI

“It's basically Power Apps.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Mainly because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €14,000. Started as Invoices_Q3_new2.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Bastian, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

running on port 5173 in production

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a README last updated 823 days ago

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will break the day Bastian changes their password.

Age: 5.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 86x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 users.