Unfortunately, people often vastly underestimate the importance of estimate accuracy which in fact drives performance of projects. Project estimation tools always serve as the basis of effective management. Documents created by such tools let you get structured planning of project activities and achieve compartmentalization of tasks (breakdown of tasks). Those tools allow evaluating your project plan, project requirements, information about schedules and timelines, and other aspects of your working environment.

As a project estimator responsible for creating meaningful estimates for your project in terms of high accuracy , you need to use those tools . For example, use the tools to get accurate time estimations which are essential for the following main reasons:

• drive identification of deadlines and timeframes for delivering your project, so you get a meaningful estimate of your project’s reliability.
• help determine the pricing of contracts and hence your project’s profitability.

A lot of project estimator tools and solutions are available in Internet to help you make estimations, and VIP Task Manager is one of them. By means of VIP Task Manager you can easily compare project attributes with each other and use worksheets . It features such tools as Charts Panel and Custom Fields Editor to manage, track and document the entire project estimation lifecycle effectively. VIP Task Manager exports tasks of your project into MS Excel, allowing you to design Excel templates and spreadsheets.

VIP Organizer is a simple todo list management solution that has no features to estimate projects and create worksheets . However, it can be used to manage tasks of your personal projects or to organize your personal activities, such as home chores, holidays, meetings etc.