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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

Managing users

In this section, we will share the main principles of user management; then, we will immediately move on to practical applications.

Users will be among the most dynamic components of this system. The reasons for this are as follows:

  • New users arrive
  • Users leave
  • Some users’ teams and roles change
  • User needs change
  • Company rules change

The system we will establish must be capable of responding to all this dynamism. In addition to this feature, the system we will install should allow the following:

  • We should be able to easily make and maintain authorization according to teams, groups, and individuals. We should be able to ensure data security and privacy easily.
  • When designing user management, it is always necessary to foresee. Of course, the current structure of the team is fundamental. However, when anticipating the changes the team may undergo and expectations from Confluence, we must design a sustainable user management...