Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 587 · 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.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) using a simple timetable (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
4. 4.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) do it all at once
5. 5.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:05 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 5:05 PM (d) 4:50 PM
7. 7.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to rest only (c) there is no need (d) to start late
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting on the last day
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 6 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
11. 11.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
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 good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) starting early
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) keeping spare days
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) keeping spare days (d) doing only easy bits
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) ignoring the timetable
19. 19.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a date for one step (c) a late fine (d) the final due date
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 35 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
21. 21.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:55 PM (b) 3:30 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 4:10 PM
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) this week (d) after it is due
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting early (d) no task list
25. 25.📅 Your class magazine 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?
26. 26.📅 Your history chart is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) guessing how long (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
29. 29.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.📅 Your art display is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
31. 31.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) play first
32. 32.📅 Your art display is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 25 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) ignoring the timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) keeping spare days
36. 36.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting on the last day

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