CEO Office built a custom ERP for one department

“It's anonymised-ish.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Allegedly because Salesforce needs 19 clicks and two approvals to change a phone number. With 621 users and 26 feature requests.

Built by:

Daniel, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a Kubernetes PersistentVolume nobody wants to delete

Authentication:

the guest account can see more than expected

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 26% battery

Responsible:

HR Generalist, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 13 times

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will receive an innovation award.

Age: 4.3 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1083 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 53x longer than intended, 27% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.