Facilities built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“The API isn't documented.”— Anja, Facilities

Reason:

Because the project has been 90% finished for 5 months. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Anja, an analyst

Build time:

1 hours 13 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

6,708 XML files

Authentication:

the admin password is Jens123

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

Katrin, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2032.

Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 771 users, 6 departments depend on it, 49% chance of becoming business critical.