Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 696 · 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.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to rest only (c) for surprises (d) to start late
2. 2.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 5:05 PM
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
4. 4.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) listing tasks first (d) breaking work into steps
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 18 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 6:10 PM (c) 6:30 PM (d) 6:45 PM
12. 12.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
14. 14.📅 Your art display is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) listing tasks first (c) hard part first (d) ignoring the timetable
21. 21.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 6 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 25 name badges in 5 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
24. 24.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) hard part first
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) guessing how long
27. 27.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
28. 28.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
30. 30.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:15 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 5:30 PM
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.📋 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
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) guessing how long (c) no task list (d) keeping spare days
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) ignoring the timetable
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) checking progress weekly (c) no spare time (d) doing only easy bits
40. 40.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False

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