Procurement built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“It's basically Airtable.”— Priya, Procurement

Reason:

Allegedly because the workflow has 69 steps and nobody wants to open it. Forked from a tutorial at 09:26 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Priya, a recruiter

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a Google Sheet with 225,146 rows and 63 tabs

Authentication:

Priya knows the password

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

Plant Manager, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 12 times

Security situation:

the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall

Future disaster:

It will turn out to be the only system that knows the real numbers.

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 387 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €885k per year, 286 users, 3 departments depend on it.