The Management Assistant built a returns processing tool

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because Invoices_Q3_FIXED.xlsx finally crashed at 16:12. Forked from a tutorial at 11:43 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Tobias, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an S3 bucket called test with public access "temporarily" enabled

Authentication:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

Daniel, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a README that begins with "temporary notes"

Security situation:

security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2033.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, alive 28x longer than intended, 1 users.