Sales built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“It has a padlock icon.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because someone said "GDPR" and the meeting went quiet. With a logo generated at 09:31.

Built by:

Katrin, someone from Procurement

Build time:

4 hours 24 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

the backend trusts whatever role the frontend sends

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2023

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 14 months ago

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €249 to the wrong country.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 670 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 74% chance of becoming business critical, 190 users, alive 37x longer than intended.