Operations built an asset register for 400 laptops

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Sarah, Operations

Reason:

Because someone said "just add AI". Built in 51 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sarah, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an email inbox used as the database

Authentication:

the secret is in README.md

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named production-2

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

the audit log records "updated successfully"

Future disaster:

It will become the source of truth in 13 months.

Age: 54 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 54 days ago · original builder left 34 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 374 users, 4 departments depend on it, the builder has left.