The project plan that schedules itself, reports its own status and runs your go-live. Then hands it over in your client's template, MS Project, Google Sheets, CSV or PDF.
Now available: Software / SaaS Implementation pack · Excel 2021+ and Google Sheets · No macros
Why Amber: forecast finish is 2 working days behind baseline. Status date 23 Feb 2027.
Works with the tools your plans already live in
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From MS Project, Jira, Smartsheet or the client's own Excel. One page your sponsor reads in a minute, and your plan never leaves your computer.
| ID | Task Name | Duration | Start | Finish | % Complete | Resource Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 54 | Testing | Mon 12/14/26 | Wed 3/17/27 | |||
| 56 | 55 | Test strategy & UAT scripts | 5 days | Mon 12/14/26 | Fri 12/18/26 | 100% | Morgan Brooks |
| 57 | 56 | System integration testing (SIT) | 10 days | Thu 2/18/27 | Wed 3/3/27 | 30% | Morgan Brooks |
| 58 | 57 | Performance & load testing | 4 days | Thu 2/25/27 | Tue 3/2/27 | 0% | Morgan Brooks |
| 59 | 58 | Security & penetration test | 5 days | Tue 2/23/27 | Mon 3/1/27 | 0% | Blake Ito |
| 60 | 59 | User acceptance testing (UAT) | 10 days | Thu 3/4/27 | Wed 3/17/27 | 0% | Avery Singh |
| 61 | 60 | Defect triage & regression | 5 days | Thu 3/11/27 | Wed 3/17/27 | 0% | Morgan Brooks |
| 62 | 61 | UAT sign-off | 0 days | Wed 3/17/27 | Wed 3/17/27 | 0% | Avery Singh |
The real file, filled in from the pasted plan. Tap to open full size. Sample project is fictional.7
Finish, End Date, Due Date, Resource Names, Assignee, Epic Link… over 100 header names from the tools PMs actually use. Anything it misses, you pick once from a dropdown.
Mon 3/17/27, 17/03/2027, 17-Mar-27 or real Excel dates. It works out day-or-month-first from your own data.
Green, Amber or Red from rules you can change, or your own call with a reason. A data check flags missing dates before your sponsor does.
Into the client's template, every week. Map their columns once; paste the result.
When one task slips. Every successor reschedules around weekends and holidays.
You picked in a meeting. The RAG comes from rules, and shows its working.
At three in the morning. A runbook that re-forecasts as each step finishes.
Before you can open a template. Plain .xlsx, nothing locked, nothing to approve.
One plan. Every format.
| ID | WBS | Task | Start | Finish | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 8 | Testing | 14-Dec-26 | 17-Mar-27 | 20% |
| 55 | 8.1 | Test strategy & UAT scripts | 14-Dec-26 | 18-Dec-26 | 100% |
| 56 | 8.2 | System integration testing | 18-Feb-27 | 03-Mar-27 | 30% |
| 59 | 8.5 | User acceptance testing | 04-Mar-27 | 17-Mar-27 | 0% |
| 61 | 8.7 | UAT sign-off | 17-Mar-27 | 17-Mar-27 | 0% |
| Ref | Activity | Responsible | End Date | RAG Status | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Testing | 17/03/2027 | In Progress | FF-2026 | |
| 8.1 | Test strategy & UAT scripts | Morgan Brooks | 18/12/2026 | Complete | FF-2026 |
| 8.2 | System integration testing | Morgan Brooks | 03/03/2027 | In Progress | FF-2026 |
| 8.5 | User acceptance testing | Avery Singh | 17/03/2027 | Not Started | FF-2026 |
| 8.7 | UAT sign-off | Avery Singh | 17/03/2027 | Not Started | FF-2026 |
| ID | Task Name | Duration | Predecessors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | Testing | 62 days | |
| 55 | Test strategy & UAT scripts | 5 days | 21 |
| 56 | System integration testing (SIT) | 10 days | 42,47,55 |
| 57 | Performance & load testing | 4 days | 56SS+5 days |
| 59 | User acceptance testing (UAT) | 10 days | 56,52 |
| A | B | C | D | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | 54 | 8 | Testing | 14-Dec-26 | 17-Mar-27 |
| 59 | 55 | 8.1 | Test strategy & UAT scripts | 14-Dec-26 | 18-Dec-26 |
| 60 | 56 | 8.2 | System integration testing | 18-Feb-27 | 03-Mar-27 |
| 63 | 59 | 8.5 | User acceptance testing | 04-Mar-27 | 17-Mar-27 |
| 65 | 61 | 8.7 | UAT sign-off | 17-Mar-27 | 17-Mar-27 |
Dates, roll-ups and status all calculate from the tasks you type. This is the only place you update.
Describe the client's template once. Every week, copy the Client Format tab into their file.4
Hierarchy, durations, baselines and dependencies, renumbered for Project's own task IDs.2
No macros means nothing to convert. The plan keeps scheduling in the browser.1
Print-ready layouts for the steering committee, and CSV for Jira, Power BI or your own database.
It schedules itself
Successors, phases, the Gantt and the dashboard recalculate around weekends and your holidays.
Every position below comes from the Keelson scheduler run on the sample plan. Presidents' Day (15 Feb) is in its holiday list, which is why some days of slip cost more than others.
A status you can defend
Slip, overdue milestones, overdue tasks and schedule performance decide it, against tolerances you set once. Override it if you must; your reason prints right beside it.
PM override: none. Change the colour and readers see both values, and why.
Go-live, under control
Enter actual times as steps finish. Every later step re-forecasts, the Go/No-Go answers from your criteria, and hypercare tracks SLAs from the first ticket.
Fluent in your method
If you trained for the PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, ITIL or CISM, you'll recognise every artefact and know where to find it.
| You know it as | In Keelson | Where |
|---|---|---|
| PMBOK® Guide · PMP® | ||
| Schedule baseline | Baseline start and finish per task, variance in working days | Plan |
| Risk register | Probability × impact, owner, response, dated action | RAID › Risks |
| Issue, assumption and decision logs | A register each, with owners and overdue flags | RAID |
| Integrated change control | Schedule and cost impact, approval, baseline-updated check | RAID › Changes |
| Schedule performance (SPI) | Duration-weighted earned ÷ planned progress at the status date5 | Dashboard |
| PRINCE2® | ||
| Tolerances | RAG thresholds set once; breach one and the colour changes | Settings |
| Highlight report | Dashboard with the three-line status narrative | Dashboard |
| PMI-ACP® · Scrum · hybrid delivery | ||
| Sprints in a stage-gated plan | Sprint planning, build and review milestones inside Build | Plan › 5.1–5.3 |
| ITIL® 4 | ||
| Change enablement, release & deployment | Approved changes, timed cutover, rollback window | Runbook |
| Incident management, service transition | P1–P4 SLAs, breach flags, handover to BAU support | Hypercare · Plan 11.2 |
| CISM® · ISO/IEC 27001 | ||
| Risk assessment and treatment | Likelihood × impact heat map; avoid, mitigate, transfer, accept | RAID › Summary |
| Security workstream | Security requirements, access model, pen test as a Go/No-Go criterion | Plan · Go-No-Go |
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If it has one row per task with a name and a finish or due date, yes. It recognises the usual column names from MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Monday and most client trackers, and title rows above the headers are fine. Phases come from a Phase or Workstream column, or from your outline levels or WBS. Everything happens inside the Excel file: nothing is uploaded.
For templates with one row per task, yes: up to 20 columns in any order, fixed values, blank columns and five date styles. Merged cells or several rows per task still need a tidy-up after pasting.
It uses their vocabulary and the artefacts both expect: baselines, tolerances, registers and change control. No standards body certifies templates, and Keelson doesn't claim to be certified or endorsed.
Yes, on any number of your own and your clients' projects. Share the filled-in files with anyone; don't resell or give away the templates themselves.
No. Every workbook is a plain .xlsx with formulas only, so company security settings won't block it.
No. You get MS Project XML, which MS Project desktop opens directly, plus an import tab. Microsoft Planner can't import either.
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