Strategy built a new starter equipment form

“It only has admin access because read-only didn't work.”— Sofia, Strategy

Reason:

Honestly? Because management has a PowerPoint with a third number. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 11 days ago.

Built by:

Sofia, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Power Automate flow with 73 steps

Database:

a backup drive that has not been plugged in for 10 months

Authentication:

the password is stored in a spreadsheet called passwords.xlsx

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

Thomas, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Slack thread from November

Security situation:

the security review consisted of opening DevTools

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 229 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 138 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 518 users, the builder has left, alive 16x longer than intended.