Someone From Accounting built a form that emails another form

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Mainly because Headcount_new2.xlsx is stored on Ravi's desktop. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Katrin, a field technician

Build time:

5 hours 18 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

Firebase with the admin SDK key committed to Git

Authentication:

the logout button is on the roadmap

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 27% battery

Responsible:

"the team", which is Katrin

Documentation:

one README with 4 TODOs

Security situation:

password reset emails contain the old password

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 7.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 1811 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 58% chance of becoming business critical, €110k per year, alive 45x longer than intended.