The Person Who Knows SQL built an invoice approval app

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. With 405 users and 92 feature requests.

Built by:

Elena, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a webhook pointed at someone's ngrok tunnel

Database:

a database dump from July that is "probably current enough"

Authentication:

the service account has global admin, just in case

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

IT Service Desk, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will outlive two reorganisations.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 111 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 20x longer than intended, the builder has left, €19k per year.