Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 738 · 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: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) using a simple timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) keeping spare days
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) doing only easy bits
4. 4.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) there is no need (c) to rest only (d) for surprises
5. 5.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:30 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 6:45 PM (d) 5:45 PM
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
7. 7.🗓️ 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
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 8 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
11. 11.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) starting on the last day
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 45 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) one huge deadline (d) checking progress weekly
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
17. 17.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
25. 25.📅 Your school play is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) keeping spare days
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) play first
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting on the last day (c) hard part first (d) breaking work into steps
31. 31.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.✂️ Your team must make 18 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
34. 34.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:25 PM (c) 5:45 PM (d) 6:10 PM
35. 35.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.✂️ Your team must make 10 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning

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