Steps

Your benefits

In the following video you will learn which advantages WeValCo Steps has to offer for your project work.

Projectmanagement with Excel and Microsoft Planner using WeValCo Steps

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There are many programs that can help you plan and execute your projects. You may already own one of them – Microsoft (MS) Planner, which is part of the 365 subscription.

In many companies, MS Excel is used for project planning, tracking and reporting. Excel is well suited for creating individual reports, e.g. to show project progress. Unfortunately, tracking tasks is cumbersome, especially in distributed teams. This is where MS Planner has its strengths. Tasks can be assigned to people and be processed by them independently. Combined with Sharepoint, you also have a good document repository.

WeValCo Steps allows you to use the advantages of both programs. For planning and status reports you can use MS Excel and for task distribution and tracking MS Planner. WeValCo Steps synchronizes your tasks between both programs and offers you a real support for your project management. WeValCo Steps was developed based on the Microsoft 365 platform and uses the infrastructure that is included in every Microsoft 365 subscription.

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Usage

In the following video we show you how to set up a project in Microsoft Planner using Excel and WeValCo Steps.

Fill a Microsoft Planner with information from Excel using WeValCo Steps

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Here you will learn how to create a project report from Microsoft Planner in Excel using WeValCo Steps.

Create an Excel Report from Microsoft Planner using WeValCo Steps

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With the Excel template you can easily create project plans and transfer them to Microsoft Planner with WeValCo Steps.

Project plan created with the Excel template, ready for transfer to MS Planner.
Create project plans easily in Excel
Steps interface with the choice to transfer project plans from Excel to MS Planner or to create Excel reports from MS planner
Create project plans from Excel to MS Planner or project reports from MS Planner to Excel with Steps.

With WeValCo Steps you can either create project plans in MS Planner using Excel or get project reports from MS Planner projects in Excel.

When creating reports, you can select one or more project plans to be summarized in one report.

Select one or more project plans to generate a project report.
WeValCo Steps interface for selecting plans for reporting.
The transfer process is displayed step by step.
Follow the broadcast live and open the project report from within WeValCo Steps

Track live the progress of the transfer. Get helpful alerts in this interface and open your project report from within WeValCo Steps.

The following example project was created automatically with WeValCo Steps. The project includes the planning and execution of a party. The first two project steps “Planning” and “Invitation” (called buckets in MS Planner) were totally completed. In the third bucket the tasks were partially completed, recognizable by the two numbers e.g. 3/5 of the marked task. In this task, 3 out of 5 sub-steps of a checklist were completed.

MS Planner with a partially processed project
Sample project in MS Planner with partially processed tasks

This project report was created automatically from MS Planner using WeValCo Steps. The report is sorted by project steps (buckets). Individual tasks and their progress can be displayed.

Project report of the sample project created with WeValCo Steps. Project phases arranged via tasks.
Excel project report sorted by project steps and tasks
Project report of the sample project created with WeValCo Steps. Project phases arranged via logical groups.
Excel project report sorted by project steps and logical groups, here teams.

You can also assign tasks to logical groups (e.g. teams, milestones etc.) and display the project report according to those. In this example, the tasks have been assigned to teams and the work progress can be displayed for each team.

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