About this Guide

Objectives

The objectives of this book are to describe the purpose of project estimation, what you can accomplish using estimate structures, and the process to create and use estimates for projects.

Intended Audience

This book is intended for those who want to learn the process to use estimates, estimate lines, estimate structures, estimate versions, and bidding in the way that best serves their purposes. The target audience includes both end users and users on administrator level.

Assumed Knowledge

Familiarity with the business processes involved in creating estimates in projects, and general knowledge of the LN functionality helps you understand this book. In addition, Project training courses are also available.

Document summary

The first chapter, Introduction, describes the purpose and the general characteristics of estimates.

The following chapters deal with the estimate setup, describes the process to create estimate lines and versions.

This guide describes procedures that users carry out using project estimates, and provides some information on the underlying processes that LN carries out. The most important session windows and fields involved are discussed, but a full description of all software components is outside the scope of this guide. For details, refer to the online Help.

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