Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 455 · 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) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) setting mini-deadlines
2. 2.✂️ Your team must make 4 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 4:15 PM
5. 5.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 3:45 PM (c) 4:15 PM (d) 4:00 PM
6. 6.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) in the third week
7. 7.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) listing tasks first (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
9. 9.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 7 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) ignoring the timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) keeping spare days
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 28 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
18. 18.📅 Your school play is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) checking progress weekly (c) no task list (d) ignoring the timetable
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no task list (c) ignoring the timetable (d) guessing how long
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) forgetting the due date (c) breaking work into steps (d) no spare time
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
27. 27.📋 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
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting early
32. 32.📅 Your science model is due in 8 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
35. 35.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
36. 36.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:40 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 6:55 PM (d) 6:05 PM
37. 37.📅 Your art display is due in 6 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
38. 38.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) listing tasks first (c) using a simple timetable (d) ignoring the timetable
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day

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