Implementing Atlassian Confluence: Strategies, tips, and insights to enhance distributed team collaboration using Confluence

Harness the Power of Atlassian Confluence to achieve sustainable enterprise collaboration with this one-stop guide covering real-world business scenarios
Key Features

Manage cross-functional distributed teams working on enterprise resources with ease
Extend Confluence with Atlassian tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, and third-party tools like Miro, Figma, and Dropbox
Create a single source of truth for enterprise-wide projects for productive collaboration
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Book Description

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.
What you will learn

Create, organize, and manage sustainable content on Confluence while enhancing collaboration
Learn effective team collaboration techniques to boost productivity and efficiency
Grasp the essential principles of scaling Confluence to meet your organizational needs
Configure Confluence as a hub for external systems
Use Jira Service Management and Confluence together
Integrate Confluence with tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, and Teams for a seamless workflow
Enhance Confluence by adding and personalizing new functionalities for your unique requirements

Who this book is for

This Atlassian Confluence book is for anyone looking to leverage the world-class collaboration platform for remote and distributed teams to collaborate efficiently, securely, and enjoyably. Whether you are a Confluence administrator, Confluence user, project manager, agile team leader, member of a management information systems team, or part of an asynchronous team looking to adopt Atlassian Confluence, you’ll find value in this guide.
Table of Contents

Introducing Enterprise Collaboration
Setting up Confluence
Creating and organizing content
Collaborating with your team
Mastering dynamic contents
Creating a space for a software project
Creating a space for product management
Setting up a Knowledge Base
Setting up a personal space
Connecting all teams
Introduction to Scaling Confluence
Assuring Security and Compliance
Integrating and extending Confluence
Challenges and Solutions
What's next