The Management Assistant built a lead scoring system

“We can always rebuild it.”— Daniel, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Officially because the process owner is Ravi, who has never used the ticket system. Forked from a tutorial at 16:45 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Daniel, a team lead

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

the new database plus the old database "for comparison"

Authentication:

the guest account can see more than expected

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €2.3m per year, 260 users, 3 departments depend on it.