Finance built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“We'll tell Security once it works.”— Marco, Finance

Reason:

Honestly? Because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €49. Already exported 156,845 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Marco, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a SharePoint list that started as a temporary workaround

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Sofia, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will round money differently from Finance.

Age: 48 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 39 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 108 users, the builder has left, alive 7x longer than intended.