Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 362 · 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.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting early
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) forgetting the due date
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) no spare time (d) breaking work into steps
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
9. 9.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) play first
10. 10.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) break it into steps
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.🗓️ 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
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) one huge deadline (d) no spare time
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
16. 16.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
18. 18.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
20. 20.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
22. 22.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
25. 25.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:30 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 6:15 PM
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 6 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
28. 28.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) for surprises (d) to start late
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) checking progress weekly (c) doing only easy bits (d) forgetting the due date
30. 30.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) listing tasks first (d) forgetting the due date
32. 32.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 4:20 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 3:35 PM
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) listing tasks first
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
39. 39.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) hard part first (c) no task list (d) using a simple timetable

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