If you're a manager, why the hell are you going to risk your career trying to get the last guy's project to work? There are two incentives in corporate America:

If you're a manager, why the hell are you going to risk your career trying to get the last guy's project to work? There are two incentives in corporate America: start a project to get the praise for something new, and kill a project to get the praise for saving money. Is it any wonder projects keep popping in and out of existence?