Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 960 · 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) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) keeping spare days
2. 2.✂️ Your team must make 28 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
5. 5.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time
8. 8.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.📅 Your school play is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 5:20 PM (c) 5:35 PM
12. 12.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) starting early (d) ignoring the timetable
14. 14.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
15. 15.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) no task list
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) using a simple timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting early (d) keeping spare days
22. 22.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
24. 24.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) neither
25. 25.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 5:25 PM
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
28. 28.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🗓️ 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
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) hard part first
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) forgetting the due date
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.📅 Your school play is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
37. 37.⏳ 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
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting on the last day

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