Quality Assurance built a headcount planning app

“We have a backup somewhere.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the prototype has 85,093 production records. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Kevin, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the password policy requires changing it every 30 days, so everyone adds 1

Deployment:

running on a server last patched 11 days ago

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2020

Security situation:

security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, €223k per year, alive 105x longer than intended.