Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 431 · 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.✂️ Your team must make 36 posters in 4 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
2. 2.✂️ Your team must make 10 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) ignoring the timetable
4. 4.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) no spare time
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) setting mini-deadlines
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) guessing how long
11. 11.📅 Your history chart is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
15. 15.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:50 PM (c) 6:35 PM (d) 6:10 PM
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no spare time
18. 18.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) study for the test
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
23. 23.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no spare time (c) no task list (d) guessing how long
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) guessing how long (c) listing tasks first (d) one huge deadline
26. 26.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:50 PM (b) 4:00 PM (c) 4:35 PM (d) 4:20 PM
27. 27.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) hard part first
29. 29.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:15 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 4:30 PM
30. 30.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) to start late (d) for surprises
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) this week
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) doing only easy bits
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) ignoring the timetable (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) keeping spare days
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 14 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?

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