The Scenario
The planning meeting wrapped 20 minutes ago. You're the engineering manager, and you walked out of it with an Excel workbook that the team spent 90 minutes building — 35 rows, each one a sprint task with a title, assignee, priority, and due date. Sprint 14 starts tomorrow morning.
The bad version:
- Open Dart, click New Task, type the title from row 1, set the assignee from the dropdown, pick the priority, enter the due date, save. Repeat for row 2.
- Discover around row 12 that "High" in your workbook doesn't map cleanly to Dart's priority levels, so now you're making a judgment call on each one.
- Finish an hour later with 35 tasks in the dartboard, three of which have wrong assignees because you were moving too fast by the end.
The sprint starts tomorrow. You needed that board ready an hour ago, not an hour from now. And you have a retro to run, a backlog to groom, and a 4pm status update for the product lead.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the data in your workbook and talks to Dart on your behalf — no Zap to build, no import wizard, no manual field matching. You type what you need.
Bulk-create all 35 tasks from my Excel sheet into Dart: title in column A, description in column B, priority in column C, due date in column D
What You Get
- 35 Dart tasks created in the Sprint 14 dartboard, one per row
- Title, assignee, priority, and due date mapped from the exact columns you specified
- Any row with a blank assignee or missing due date surfaced as a warning, not silently skipped
- The dartboard ready to use before the end of the working day
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Priority values don't match Dart's options
Create a Dart task for each row in column A — treat 'High' as 'Urgent', 'Medium' as 'Medium', and 'Low' as 'Low' in Dart — use column B for assignee and column D for due date, add to the 'Sprint 14' dartboard
Assignee names in the workbook don't match Dart user accounts exactly
Create Dart tasks from each row in my workbook — if the name in column B matches a Dart team member, assign to them; if it doesn't match, leave the task unassigned and note the mismatch in column E
Tasks are split across two worksheets — Sprint 14 and Sprint 14 Overflow
Create Dart tasks from all rows in the 'Sprint 14' worksheet and the 'Sprint 14 Overflow' worksheet — use column A for title, column B for assignee, column C for priority, column D for due date — add all of them to the 'Sprint 14' dartboard
Kill-chain: normalize priority labels, flag blank assignees, create all tasks, and log results
For each row in the Sprint 14 worksheet: remap column C priority values ('H'→'Urgent', 'M'→'Medium', 'L'→'Low'), flag any row where column B is blank by writing 'UNASSIGNED' into column E, then create a Dart task with the corrected fields and write 'Created' or the error into column F
One prompt does the cleanup and the creation. You end up with a dartboard that matches the workbook and a log of anything that needed attention.
Try It
Open your sprint planning workbook and get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI, then ask it to bulk-create the sprint board in Dart. When you're ready to do more, see how to export task status back to an Excel workbook or post QA comments to tasks in bulk. The full Dart integration guide covers all seven workflows.