Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 213 · 40 questions

Leader's tip (Steps, dates, spare days): List the steps and give each step a number of days and a mini-deadline. Days needed = add up the steps. Spare days = days you have − days needed. Due in 14 days, tasks 3 + 5 + 2 = 10 days → 4 spare days. Do what is due sooner first, start early and check your progress every week.

1. 1.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) one huge deadline
3. 3.📅 Your science model is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.📅 Your science model is due in 7 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
5. 5.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) the night before
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting on the last day (d) breaking work into steps
10. 10.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to rest only (c) there is no need (d) to start late
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) keeping spare days
12. 12.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
14. 14.📅 Your history chart is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) setting mini-deadlines
16. 16.📅 Your class magazine is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) breaking work into steps
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
19. 19.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) guessing how long (d) listing tasks first
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) one huge deadline (d) no spare time
23. 23.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) using a simple timetable
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting early (c) no spare time (d) doing only easy bits
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 24 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
27. 27.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:55 PM (b) 4:15 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 3:50 PM
28. 28.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) make the poster (c) study for the test (d) play first
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) using a simple timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 42 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
31. 31.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) keeping spare days
34. 34.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) keeping spare days
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
40. 40.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False

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