As the saying goes- "no battle plan survives the first shot". But the customer wants dollar values attached to certain tasks, so to do that I have to allocate hours and time. If I miss the estimate significantly then I'll be in big trouble.

Right now I figured out a method using an Excel spreadsheet and the Gantt chart in MS project, but it isn't pretty! I figured someone has to have a tool to make this stuff easy
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-Jeff
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.