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Chapter 8.

TEAM CLEANING GOAL
Goal

You may be working on a team of cleaners. If so, someone needs
to delegate the tasks and have a good overall view of the work as
it progresses. That person is the Team Leader. The primary
responsibility of the Team Leader is to see that all team members
finish cleaning at the exact same time.

Finally, Some Decisions to Make
To finish together requires some decision
making on your part. Like where do
you start cleaning so you'll finish
together? When the Bathroom Person
finishes his/her primary job, what's
next? The same for the Kitchen Person.

The Longest Job
The key to finishing together is to identify the longest job and get
it started at the right time. The longest job is the one that takes
the longest time and that no one can help with. This is often the
vacuuming.

When this longest job should be started is crucial. Get the longest
job started early so it isn't still going on when the rest of the team
is finished.

The graph below shows time wasted by starting the longest job
(vacuuming) at the wrong time. The Bathroom Person ended up
vacuuming while the other two stood idle. If the Duster had
dusted only ten minutes, started the vacuuming, and then
finished dusting when the bathroom cleaner had finished their
primary job and was available to take over vacuuming, the
whole team would have finished together. They also would
finish the entire housecleaning eighteen minutes faster apiece—
that's nearly one full hour less total cleaning time.

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