Facilities built a laptop request portal

“There are only like twelve users.”— Olivier, Facilities

Reason:

Allegedly because the correct dropdown option is "Other". With 86 users and 73 feature requests.

Built by:

Olivier, a recruiter

Build time:

4 hours 34 minutes

Built with:

a Power Automate flow with 73 steps

Database:

an Outlook shared mailbox with 114,633 unread records

Authentication:

backups are encrypted with the same password as production

Deployment:

running on Ubuntu 18.04 and nobody wants to upgrade it

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by another tool built by Priya.

Age: 3.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, alive 53x longer than intended, 6 users.