Project estimation software for managing costs and time

Project estimation software is an instrument for project planning, which helps to plan costs and time on particular project elements and the entire project. Project estimating software helps project managers to cope with financial angle of the entrusted projects through assigning and allocating budget resources. Such project estimate software streamlines and facilitates project estimation process, making it more manageable and decreasing project estimation time.

The point of project estimation software is not only helping to create project estimation plan, but also to communicate this plan through electronic project estimation sheets to all project participants, so they can know project estimation plan in terms and details essential for them. 

Actually project estimating software enables multiple project performers to be engaged into the project planning in terms of budget management, and in many cases it is absolutely unnecessary for project estimate software to be some specially-purposed complicated tool for professional financial management and budgeting – on the contrary, any project software that supports project estimation process may work for this purpose. For example VIP Task Manager (client-server project estimation software) with the following functions:

• Breaking down projects into smaller elements and planning costs for every task on the project.
• Creating project estimating spreadsheets, including not only costs information, but also information about time and any other estimated parameters.
• Creating and sharing project estimation sheets (to-do lists), showing planned costs and time in regard to every project item and task.
• Making all estimated parameters controllable and reportable through interactive project estimation worksheets (project estimating templates).
• Creating a network of virtual workstations where users can adjust interface to find appropriate project estimation format and use favorite project estimating methods.

VIP Task Manager is software for task and time management, with project estimating spreadsheet functionality. This project estimation software is very easy in use and configuration. With its help you are free to design and use project estimating templates for recurring projects and processes. Every team member can be provided with individual project estimation worksheet, showing his/her tasks, timetables and expectations in terms of costs as well as any other quantitative or qualitative measures. This product is also very simple in installation – it will take just several minutes to deploy this program over your corporate LAN, so in a few minutes you can get the ready-to-go system, interconnecting all your team members in terms of planning, sharing and controlling project estimation samples, to-do’s, timetables, schedules and documents.