CEO Office built a certification expiry alerter

“It only writes when necessary.”— Kevin, CEO Office

Reason:

Officially because the roadmap says Q1, but nobody wrote down the year. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Kevin, a team lead

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a Postgres database called temp-old-really-final containing 3 years of production data

Authentication:

the certificate is self-signed and everybody clicked through

Deployment:

running from a zip file called copy of copy of Headcount.xlsx

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

production secrets are in Git history

Future disaster:

It will become impossible to shut down because 9 other tools depend on it.

Age: 38 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 38 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 accidental connections, 6 users, alive 2x longer than intended.