All too common approach to projects here
I would bet a round of drinks that every El Reg reader has been involved in a project where if you can show the new 'current state' matches the desired end state then this has been treated as the project being complete. Never mind all those old bit of hardware/software, they will all fall away soon enough once people go through a hardware refresh because who would not update their pointers to the super new ones?
I would also suspect that a number of you have spent months trying to close out old domains etc where the person who 'owned' them within the company left multiple years ago and nobody since has had the courage to kill them off since 'someone may still be using them'. I know that all the change management processes I have suffered require positive approval from an owner and rarely can cope if said owner is no longer available.