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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 meetings

No matter how many participants there are, meetings, in different settings, will always exist in our lives. Whether you work in an office or with a distributed team, you must work on effectiveness. Confluence can help you plan your meetings to be organized only when necessary to protect valuable time and reach goals faster.

Confluence can help you with the following:

  • Reducing the number of meetings
  • Organizing more productive meetings

Reducing the number of meetings

You can have fewer meetings using the features we learned about on Confluence. Let’s look at how you can reduce the number of meetings through two different scenarios.

Scenario 1

You’re dealing with an important contract that you need to finalize and are expecting full participation from your team.

The traditional solution, which we don’t recommend, is, “Let’s organize a meeting and distribute a copy of the contract to everyone. Let’...