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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

Finding your way in Confluence

Our goal here is to get to know the basic features and the interface of Confluence practically so that we can use this tool effectively. In this section, we’ll talk about many text-processing features from other software you might be familiar with. We want to underline an important point: Confluence is a collaboration tool with powerful text-processing features. However, its main feature is not text processing. For this reason, you may realize that many features available in text processors are not in Confluence. Being aware that these features may have been left out on purpose can significantly increase the efficiency we get from Confluence. We aim to work together; hundreds of fonts, colors, and very detailed formatting features can easily distract us from this goal, and we can get lost in the details. That’s why you’ll find only the most essential features in Confluence; this simplicity. Although you may find it strange, this will...