Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 485 · 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.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) the final due date (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
2. 2.✂️ Your team must make 10 name badges in 5 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
3. 3.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
6. 6.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:05 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 4:50 PM
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) guessing how long
8. 8.⏳ 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
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
10. 10.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.📅 Your art display is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) using a simple timetable (d) forgetting the due date
19. 19.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) study for the test
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
21. 21.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) this week (c) after it is due (d) the night before
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting on the last day
26. 26.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 45 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
29. 29.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 3:55 PM (d) 3:40 PM
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
33. 33.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) guessing how long
35. 35.📅 Your art display is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
37. 37.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) keeping spare days
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) listing tasks first (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting early (c) no task list (d) doing only easy bits
40. 40.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 5:10 PM

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