Vendor Management built a KPI dashboard

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Nadia, an intern

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

MongoDB where every document has a different schema

Authentication:

the API key has existed since the prototype

Deployment:

deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 6 years

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 331 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 688 users, 4 accidental connections, 54% chance of becoming business critical.