Maintenance built a remote work request form

“Sales already promised it.”— Tobias, Maintenance

Reason:

Mainly because the export button creates Budget2026_FIXED.csv, but nobody knows where. With 506 users and 40 feature requests.

Built by:

Tobias, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to exactly one employee

Database:

a GitHub Gist that became business critical

Authentication:

MFA exists, but everyone clicked "remember this device forever"

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Headcount.csv to Elena

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 317 days ago

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will make an audit take 6 extra weeks.

Age: 59 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 59 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 departments depend on it, alive 4x longer than intended, 2 users.