Facilities built a PTO approval app

“We didn't have time for a ticket.”— Petra, Facilities

Reason:

Because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". With a logo generated at 11:01.

Built by:

Petra, a field technician

Build time:

4 hours 29 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €57.32/month

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Kevin, who left

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 69 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 69 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 95 users, €15k per year, 1 departments depend on it.