The Management Assistant built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“It only writes when necessary.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the workaround has been in production for 18 months. Built in one weekend and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Anja, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

one table called everything

Authentication:

the production token is in someone's shell history

Deployment:

running on port 3000 in production

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2019

Security situation:

certificate warnings are considered normal

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 55 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 55 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €402k per year, 6 users, alive 2x longer than intended.