With only one exception that I know of , management has always accepted the team’s plan or one of its alternative plans. Out of many TSP team launches, the only exception was one in which management has asked for a one-year schedule and the team found that the work would take five years. Management then killed the project. This was really a success. Without the TSP, no one would have understood the magnitude of the job until after the team had spent a year or more trying to accomplish the impossible. The TSP saved the team a lot of frustration, and it saved management a lot of money.