The Management Assistant built an NDA generator

“IT would have taken months.”— Priya, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Mainly because the ticket has been open for 88 days. With 45 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Priya, an analyst

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

the production database, directly, with write access

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 16 days

Responsible:

Priya, who left 13 months ago

Documentation:

one README with 13 TODOs

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will make an audit take 2 extra weeks.

Age: 180 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 180 days ago · original builder left 144 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €403k per year, direct production access, the builder has left.