Legal built a deployment button

“It's only 800 lines.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because Sofia from Legal is on holiday until April. Forked from a tutorial at 16:39 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Priya, a recruiter

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

a Power Automate flow with 73 steps

Database:

a JSON file in Git called production-data.json

Authentication:

the security model is "nobody knows this URL"

Deployment:

deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 4 years

Responsible:

IT Service Desk, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a Word document called Invoices_Q3_v2.xlsx

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.5m per year, 277 users, 52% chance of becoming business critical.