Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 433 · 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.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 5:45 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 6:00 PM
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
3. 3.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 3:35 PM (c) 3:50 PM (d) 4:25 PM
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no spare time (d) starting early
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
7. 7.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
8. 8.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) there is no need (c) to rest only (d) to start late
9. 9.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:10 PM (b) 5:50 PM (c) 5:35 PM
10. 10.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
11. 11.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
12. 12.✂️ Your team must make 14 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.📅 Your school play is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 24 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting early (d) hard part first
21. 21.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 3:35 PM (c) 4:25 PM
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) one huge deadline
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) doing only easy bits (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) using a simple timetable
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) forgetting the due date
27. 27.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 40 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
29. 29.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 5:45 PM (c) 4:55 PM (d) 5:30 PM
30. 30.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:40 PM (b) 6:10 PM (c) 6:25 PM (d) 6:00 PM
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
32. 32.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
35. 35.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) listing tasks first (c) no task list (d) guessing how long
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) no task list (d) guessing how long

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