this seems really....inefficent Inefficiency is probably why the company is employing people to do the work. Estimating is exactly the practice of obtaining p

this seems really....inefficent Inefficiency is probably why the company is employing people to do the work. Estimating is exactly the practice of obtaining prices for material and labor contained within a bill of materials. The more accurate the information, the more accurate the estimate. Efficiency is only a result of meaningful experience doing tasks inefficiently but correctly. On the other hand, if the company is an ongoing concern, it has institutional knowledge and practices and vendor relationships. That is where you should start because whatever HN tells you is not what your boss will expect of you. Give yourself time to learn and have a beginner’s mind. There are complex considerations that you simply don’t know (vendor relationships and the CEO’s expectations for example). Good luck.