The Management Assistant built a data export tool that exports everything

“The password changes every year.”— Katrin, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Because the workaround has been in production for 9 months. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Katrin, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a folder called DATABASE

Authentication:

the firewall is disabled because it blocked something

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Customers.xlsx

Responsible:

Chen, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will be reported to the data protection officer by a customer.

Age: 52 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 760 users, 23% chance of becoming business critical, 1 accidental connections.