Sales built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“It's not indexed.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the process requires signatures from 8 people. With 155 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Olivier, someone from Procurement

Build time:

3 hours 16 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a Map().

Authentication:

the password is the company name backwards

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 262 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 239 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 204 users, 65% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.