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Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By : Eren Kalelioğlu
Book Image

Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By: Eren Kalelioğlu

Overview of this book

Implementing Atlassian Confluence is an all-encompassing guide to the essential concepts of distributed work and leveraging Confluence to create a world-class collaboration environment. This book begins with an introduction to enterprise collaboration concepts and explains how to set up Confluence. You’ll quickly proceed to creating and maintaining dynamic content, effective cross-functional collaboration, and employing Confluence applications in scenarios such as software project management and knowledge bases. You’ll discover how to use Jira Service Management together with Confluence, set up personal spaces, implement centralized user management, address security risks, and explore suggested solutions on Confluence. Furthermore, you’ll integrate and extend Confluence with other Atlassian and third-party software. The book also contains tips and guidance on managing Confluence adoption, enabling you to focus on your team and provide them with a state-of-the-art remote collaboration environment. Complete with practical business scenarios, best practices, and examples, this book will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of Atlassian Confluence’s capabilities for enhancing collaboration within cross-functional teams.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Preparing for Confluence
7
Part 2:Building a Real Confluence Site
13
Part 3:Scaling Business

Establishing a knowledge base with Confluence

Follow the following path to create a robust knowledge base using Confluence. First, set up your Confluence account. Once this is done, you can build your knowledge base by creating a dedicated space. Think of this space as a digital room where all related information and resources are housed, such as frontend development standards and a code review checklist. Each page should be detailed, clear, and easily understandable. Don’t forget to add relevant images, videos, or diagrams to make the content more engaging and comprehensible.

Finally, use labels to categorize these pages. They are keywords or tags that you can attach to the pages, and they will significantly improve navigability. Labels form an informal way to categorize or group pages and help users quickly find the necessary information. For example, under the software development guidelines space, pages related to backend development can be tagged with a “backend...