Quality Assurance built a PTO approval app

“We just need it until SAP is updated.”— Daniel, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Mainly because the correct dropdown option is "Other". Already exported 96,196 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Daniel, a team lead

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a MySQL database called new on a machine under a desk

Authentication:

the service account has global admin, just in case

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

Finance Business Partner, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

the API key is shared by 5 applications

Future disaster:

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

Age: 8.4 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 164 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 90 users, €105k per year, 3 departments depend on it.