Procurement built a PTO approval app

“It's only for a few people.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the documentation starts with "TODO". With 82 users and 32 feature requests.

Built by:

Lukas, an analyst

Build time:

4 hours 36 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

Elasticsearch, because somebody wanted search

Authentication:

the API accepts requests from anywhere with confidence

Deployment:

on a Raspberry Pi in the server room

Responsible:

Priya, according to nobody except Anja

Documentation:

a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 113 days, including the important ones.

Age: 6.7 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 2269 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 620 users, €1.0m per year, 72% chance of becoming business critical.