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Disaster recovery + speed = Confluence Data Center
Having a disaster recovery plan is essential in protecting business-critical applications in the event of a disaster. With the release of Confluence Data Center 5.9, it’s now possible to resume operations in an alternate data center (usually in another geographic location), if the main data center becomes unavailable. Get the scoop on Confluence Data Center.
Examples of capturing customer feedback for agile development
Customer feedback in agile development is a three-step process of gathering, documenting, and prioritizing. Here are examples from our product managers.
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.
New ebook: the software team’s guide to Confluence
The “Software Team’s Guide to Confluence” ebook is a collection of pro tips and step-by-step tutorials – tailor-made for software teams – that’ll show you how to use Confluence for creating, organizing, and documenting the information your team needs to make awesome products.
5 Jira and Confluence plug-ins your HR team will love
Many Atlassian customers don’t realize there are loads of add-ons and integrations within our marketplace, including these 5 Jira plug-ins an HR department can use to create a unique, customized central system for their team and processes. Jira isn’t just for software teams, because all teams need to plan, track, and collaborate on projects. We built Jira Core to make Jira simpler for all business teams, and these add-ons help tailor the HR experience.
6 call-outs from the Summit 2015 keynote address
Highlights from the Summit 2015 keynote address including Hipchat Connect, Jira Software, Jira Core, Jira and Confluence for iOS, the Health Monitor, Room to Read, and Pledge 1%.
Confluence performance: twice as fast in the cloud
We need tools that support the speed at which we work. Even a slight wait can throw you off your flow. Have you ever gotten impatient while waiting for, oh… I don’t know… a Confluence page to load? So you pop over to Facebook (just for a sec – seriously!), and after chuckling over some pics […]
How to document releases and share release notes with Confluence
If you track and report most of your work in Jira, the integration between Confluence and Jira makes it easy to insert your release results straight from Jira into a Confluence page, where you can add more color and detail, publish internally, and also make them publicly available.
Collaborate with your team using wiki software
We know. If you’re not familiar with using wiki software, the first thing you think of is probably Wikipedia. If that’s not the first thing, then it’s probably “WTF is a wiki?” Check out how you and your team can benefit from giving Confluence a try.
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.
How to build a release planning page in Confluence
Every product release requires a lot of hard work and a ton of coordination between individuals and teams. In some places, a release coordinator takes this on as a full time job, while in others, a developer, product manager, or project manager might be in charge of release planning. At Atlassian, we use Confluence to collect and organize […]
The smoke test: the golden arrow in an admin’s quiver
Software teams have long benefitted from using a smoke test to quickly validate a new software build. The smoke test is designed to verify basic functionality and the most common problems that appear in the product. Using a structured smoke test makes managing change across your Confluence instance much easier as it’s an easily reproducible test any administrator can perform. In this article we’ll cover how to use the admin tools to verify integrity, how to generate a good content test bed, and how to run those tests.
How to create sprint retrospective and demo pages (like a BOSS) with Confluence
As software makers, we rely heavily on sprint retrospectives and demos to learn more about what’s going on with our team and our products. Read on to see how to build pages that record what you’ve learned and let you share it outside your team.
How to create product requirements using Confluence
We’ve written quite a bit about the conundrum of writing requirements in an agile environment. The most important takeaway is: the best way to kick-off your software projects is to build a shared understanding amongst your team. At Atlassian we find the best way to do this is to create a collaborative product requirement to hash […]
Creating insightful customer interview pages using Confluence
Using Confluence to document and share customer interviews can help with every step of the process, including using feedback to create better products. Check out these design tips and best practices for creating customer interview pages.