Project Management Office built a Christmas party RSVP system

“IT would have taken months.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because the Miro board is now the documentation. Started as Stock_list.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Olivier, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a mini PC behind the reception desk

Authentication:

security by obscurity, but without much obscurity

Deployment:

hosted in Katrin's Azure subscription

Responsible:

Daniel, who only knows the database

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 5 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 311 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 311 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, 22 users, alive 15x longer than intended.