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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

Collaborating with your team

At first, Confluence may seem like a typical text processor, but it has a unique philosophy: Confluence is entirely based on cooperation. The priority here is not just to store the text in a cloud but also to manage information collaboratively. The interface and the features are designed according to this philosophy. In Confluence, all of the content is created, updated, and developed collectively. It is visible and collectively shared unless stated otherwise.

In Confluence, each element (pages, attachments, comments, etc.) is optimized for collaborative work. Many of the features that enable collaboration on Confluence are quite simple yet very powerful so that you can use the interactions here in a small team of 5 people or a large company of 10,000 people.

In Confluence, you can do the following:

  • Develop content collaboratively
  • Discuss an entire document
  • Brainstorm on a specific region of a document
  • Send a specific part of a...