CEO Office built a procurement savings dashboard

“We'll add backups later.”— Ravi, CEO Office

Reason:

Mainly because the meeting to fix it created 5 more meetings. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Ravi, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a JSON file in production

Authentication:

the security model is "we have antivirus"

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

Sofia, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 65 slides

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 58 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 58 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 222 users, 24% chance of becoming business critical.