A worked example, illustrative

A roster, a spreadsheet, an inbox. Three weeks later.

1. 1/Say you have

   • A roster in a shared spreadsheet.
   • Swaps by email and text.
   • Conflicts found on the day.

2. 2/I build

   • A week board that refuses bad shifts as they are laid.
   • Swaps that approve themselves when no rule breaks.
   • One current week, on everyone's calendar. Three weeks, start to finish.

3. 3/It saves

   • The coordinator's evening, every week: roughly four hours.
   • About two hundred hours a year, at whatever that hour costs you.
   • Every empty desk that a caught conflict would have prevented.

Numbers are for a team of about a dozen. Yours get measured, not guessed: the counter is the first thing built.