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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

Organizing content

Your Confluence environment, in which many people work, can turn into complete chaos in a short period if you are not organized. In such an environment, no one knows where to record new information or where to find the information they are looking for. The information here stays out of date, which results in wasted efforts. Things soon turn for the worse, and gradually people stop using Confluence.

Now, let's put pessimism aside and see how we can keep the environment clean with effective habits. The aim is to provide an environment where new information is quickly recorded and easily found. In addition, we want this environment to be up-to-date, complete, and fun at all times.

This section will explain how we can keep spaces and pages organized.

Organizing spaces

Here are some tips on how you can keep your Confluence spaces tidy:

  • Avoid constantly creating new spaces and create a new space only when necessary.
  • Archive unused spaces.
  • ...