Plan better with the Roadmap Planner macro in Confluence
Learn how our Roadmap Planner macro can help you and your team work through some of your most complex quarterly or yearly plans.
5 reasons to try Team Calendars in Confluence Cloud Premium
A personal calendar is great for keeping track of your schedule—meetings, appointments, virtual happy hours. What it’s NOT great for is keeping track of the schedules of every person on your team. With different projects, leave requests, and travel plans, keeping everyone on the same page is a full-time job in and of itself. Trying […]
Confluence editor: create and edit pages faster than ever
We haven’t just focused on making Confluence faster, we’ve worked hard to make you faster too. That comes down to two important functions: creating and editing content. In this post, I’ll cover two improvements to how you create and edit content.
How to make better decisions as a software team
Sometimes, it’s easier to make a decision asynchronously. And for that, there’s no place better than Confluence. The Decisions Blueprint provides a simple, repeatable process for making decisions asynchronously with your team and recording them forever in Confluence. And once everything’s in Confluence, you—and anyone on your team—can reference it later.
3 ways to report information in Confluence
Confluence has a simple mission: to be the one place where you organize, create, and discuss work with your team. You can centralize (and organize) all your work in a single place accessible by your entire team or company. In this blog post, I’ll focus on three major improvements to existing macros available in our latest release, Confluence 5.8, that will help you organize your work and knowledge in Confluence.
Three tips to help you organize tables in Confluence
Tables are a useful tool when creating beautiful and organized Confluence pages. In our latest release, Confluence 5.8, we made some major improvements to table functions that will help you create and manage even your most massive tables. Here’s a look at three new features that will make a huge difference when you work with your next table.
Confluence 5.8: files in context and in the flow
Confluence 5.7 introduced a new way to view, share, review, and resolve feedback on files; all without excessive emailing or lengthy meetings. We’re excited to introduce Confluence 5.8 which significantly adds to what we started in Confluence 5.7 – making it easier than ever to stay in context and in the flow while you work with your team on a file or document.
Webinar: Productivity and collaboration with Atlassian
We recently hosted a webinar about two of the key culprits that deplete your productivity – email and pointless meetings and practical examples of how to shrink your inbox and construct a positive meeting culture using Confluence. If you missed the live event or want to share it with your team, you’ll find the recording […]
Webinar recap: using Jira and Confluence for agile software development
Building great software is hard. It’s one of the most intensely collaborative processes in the working world. Development teams are constantly battling the effects of tools that don’t seamlessly integrate, aren’t flexible enough to work for them, or aren’t powerful enough to do what they need. Jira and Confluence are integrated, flexible, and powerful tools; and we want to show you how they meet the needs of your software lifecycle in a webinar that showcases real use-cases and best practices from Garmin and Atlassian.
Introducing a new feedback loop in Confluence 5.7
Working with feedback is one of the clumsiest and most difficult parts of getting work done. The feedback is never in one place, the conversations stream through various emails, and then all too often the feedback given is based on an outdated version. You have to fight off a headache just to update a few slides in your sales deck, or change a few numbers in your spreadsheet, or even clean up a couple typos in your product requirement.
Watch this webinar: Practical advice for agile planning and collaboration
I recently hosted a webinar with Itamar Goldminz, the Director of Product at Opower, in which we discussed the best practices that Atlassian and Opower have found using Jira and Confluence to plan and collaborate when building software. We focused on a variety of topics, including: requirements management strategies, approaches for group decision-making, and how to help teams outside of the software development process make use of agile best practices.
Introducing Team Calendars 5: Build your schedule with custom event types
In our last major release, Team Calendars 4, we moved away from calendar types to event types so that you could centralize your team’s schedule into fewer calendars. Shortly after the release, a feature request for custom event types was logged on our public issue tracker (about one year ago). We had no idea it would gain so much […]
Should you create a Confluence space for your team or for each project? Part 2 of 2
This is the second of a two-part blog series about creating team and project spaces in Confluence. You can find the first part here. Let’s pick up where we left off in the last blog post. At Atlassian, the answer to the title of this blog post, is ‘both’. We primarily dedicate spaces to a team – we have […]
Should you create a Confluence space for your team or for each project? Part 1 of 2.
This is the first of a two-part blog series about creating team and project spaces in Confluence. You can find the second part here. Confluence is powerful team collaboration software because it’s so flexible. At Atlassian, it’s our company intranet and helps every single team get their work done. Confluence is our heart and soul – where teams work together on […]
Do Agile Right Webinar Recap – Q&A with two Atlassian marketing managers
In February, two of our very own Atlassian Confluence product marketing managers, Matt Hodges and John Wetenhall, hosted a live webinar sharing agile best practices for software development that they’ve learned over the years. They talked about: Agile basics like sprint management and retrospectives Planning, communicating, and executing on quarterly goals Making the best use of Jira, Confluence, and Jira Agile […]