Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 796 · 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 poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting on the last day
2. 2.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
3. 3.🗓️ 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
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:50 PM (b) 6:05 PM (c) 5:10 PM
11. 11.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) play first
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) listing tasks first
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) using a simple timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
20. 20.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
21. 21.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting early (d) setting mini-deadlines
24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 27 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) forgetting the due date
26. 26.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 6:05 PM (d) 5:25 PM
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) using a simple timetable (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting early
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
29. 29.📅 Your school play is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
30. 30.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 4:15 PM (d) 4:05 PM
33. 33.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 24 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
39. 39.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) doing only easy bits
40. 40.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?

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