An External Consultant built a swag inventory

“IT would have taken months.”— Bastian, An External Consultant

Reason:

Honestly? Because the documentation was last updated 8 months ago. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Bastian, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Power Automate flow with 73 steps

Database:

three databases, each claiming to be the source of truth

Authentication:

the service account has global admin, just in case

Deployment:

deployed on Friday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the audit log records "updated successfully"

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 348 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, alive 14x longer than intended, deployed on a Friday.