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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

Setting Up Confluence

Getting started with Confluence is easy. But things can get derailed very quickly.

The amount and variety of information we collect on Confluence will increase daily, so keeping it organized is essential. To set up a system that people will enjoy using, it is necessary to sit down and plan. While making this plan, it is helpful to benefit from a well-known concept: information architecture.

In this chapter, you will first learn fundamental concepts such as information architecture to help you set up the Confluence environment from scratch. The main goal of this chapter is to make an excellent start to your Confluence journey.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Introducing information architecture
  • Planning your Confluence site
  • Installing and configuring Confluence
  • Managing users
  • Setting up spaces – team, project, company, and personal