Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 307 · 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: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) checking progress weekly
3. 3.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) ignoring the timetable
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) this week
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 15 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) guessing how long (d) starting early
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 6 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
9. 9.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 5:40 PM
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:40 PM (b) 3:55 PM (c) 3:20 PM
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.📅 Your art display is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) keeping spare days (c) starting early (d) using a simple timetable
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
17. 17.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) listing tasks first (d) no spare time
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 10 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
22. 22.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 4:20 PM (c) 5:10 PM
23. 23.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
27. 27.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
30. 30.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) guessing how long (c) starting early (d) using a simple timetable
32. 32.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
33. 33.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) no task list
34. 34.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) make the poster (c) play first (d) study for the test
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) no spare time (d) using a simple timetable
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) listing tasks first (d) no spare time
38. 38.📅 Your science model is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
39. 39.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) break it into steps (c) give up (d) do it all at once
40. 40.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

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