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Good for Documentation, Not easy to Navigate
What do you like best about the product?
The linkages between Confluence and Jira are great and make it easy to create pages to track and communicate status of work the team is managing in Jira. Static documentation for releases can be stored and searched.
What do you dislike about the product?
When teams are using confluence as a collaborative space or for housing research it can become difficult to navigate and find what you are looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluence is a space for the entire company to share information. The biggest benefit is being able to go to confluence and use the search function to find the answer to a question you have without needing to ask a bunch of people.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are using Jira, Confluence is a great complimentary tool.
Accomplishes what it needs to...No Frills
What do you like best about the product?
Organize all work for my team easily. Attach files. Can quickly search using queries to find exactly what I need. All team members are very aware of how to use jira to organize themselves.
What do you dislike about the product?
Really bad versioning. Annoying to replace files with newer versions. Updating Jira tickets doesn't really propagate down from Epics to stories. Find myself copying and pasting a lot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Large scale dev across multi platforms. Keeping all devs organized and on track.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are good at querying then utilizing this on a day to day is easy. Burndown charts are nice, but take some time to get used to. Great to add filters to projects to narrow down your work.
Ultra-Detailed Team Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
I love the suite of tools that Confluence provides. We currently use the Confluence Wiki, JIRA and HipChat, each with their own unique features and benefits.
The Wiki works as our company encyclopedia. If anyone wants to know, "What did this specific document at this point in time?" We can pull it up in the wiki and provide them with the document(s) they're looking for. Although it can get quite technical, JIRA is, by far, the best project management software I've used in my career. It's based on the SCRUM system, which kind of game-ifies your workful, and dare I say, makes it a little fun.
HipChat is the Confluence's version of Skype, which makes inter-departmental communication a whole lot easier. The ability to create "rooms" for certain projects is also great.
The Wiki works as our company encyclopedia. If anyone wants to know, "What did this specific document at this point in time?" We can pull it up in the wiki and provide them with the document(s) they're looking for. Although it can get quite technical, JIRA is, by far, the best project management software I've used in my career. It's based on the SCRUM system, which kind of game-ifies your workful, and dare I say, makes it a little fun.
HipChat is the Confluence's version of Skype, which makes inter-departmental communication a whole lot easier. The ability to create "rooms" for certain projects is also great.
What do you dislike about the product?
As robust as it is, Confluence requires some serious planning and time to set up for your team and their specific needs. If you've got a web-development wizard on staff, this can be cake. If not, it seems like you can set yourself up for a lot of error and miscommunication down the road. That being said, I've never been the one to set up Confluence or communicated with their support staff, so take this with a grain of salt.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've made, and still are making, our workflow as simple and streamlined as possible with JIRA. Without it, I couldn't imagine how slow and tedious it would be to finish projects on time. I've realized that keeping track of projects and keeping people accountable is an obvious benefit, but JIRA just enhances this benefit even further.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I highly recommend using Confluence, whether you've got a team of 5, 50 or more. It tracks everything and keeps all users accountable for the tasks they're assigned to.
As robust as it is, Confluence requires some serious planning and time to set up for your team and their specific needs. If you've got a web-development wizard on staff, this can be cake. If not, it seems like you can set yourself up for a lot of error and miscommunication down the road.
As robust as it is, Confluence requires some serious planning and time to set up for your team and their specific needs. If you've got a web-development wizard on staff, this can be cake. If not, it seems like you can set yourself up for a lot of error and miscommunication down the road.
Great platform for knowledge sharing
What do you like best about the product?
Confluence is a great platform for knowledge sharing. I can easily set up a page for my team and we can collaborate by edit the page with the info we need and upload files for others to download. Calendar is another great place to share information as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
When I try to copy paste already formatted content, it will not work in confluence.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Knowledge and file sharing with confluence. It is a go-to place when we have questions. We are working more efficiently as we could get the answer from the pages without emailing other parties.
Useful tool to track projects
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use
Easy to navigate
Ability to expand to a knowledge base
Multi user database
Easy to navigate
Ability to expand to a knowledge base
Multi user database
What do you dislike about the product?
Reports management is not the best. Can be difficult to filter.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking projects and reports, Multiple users can work on it at the same time.
Good place for keep docs
What do you like best about the product?
Very intuitive interface. Good blocks editors.
What do you dislike about the product?
Have a lot of bugs. some time very slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping documentation for the projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use very stable version.
Confluence is used quite often in our workplace
What do you like best about the product?
It provides a centralized location for technical documentation. It is an easy to use tool that allows for quick edits, new document creation and management.
What do you dislike about the product?
The search feature isn't the best. Sometimes I will search for something and there are pages and pages to go thru. This could be due to the way our company has input data - sometimes we have docs all over the place.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping a centralized document repository and company glossary. The centralization allows anyone logged into our corp network access to information
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it out - remember to organize in a way that is useful to your entire organization; right now we have too many people that have "started" pages, but not kept them up
Not sure why you would want to use Confluence
What do you like best about the product?
Accessible through the web so you can view content on desktop and mobile
What do you dislike about the product?
Most everything; reminds me of just an online version of your file manager but worse bc it's viewed through your web browser
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sharing information across organizations
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Editing within the browser which columns filtered is not easy (your filter gets messed up). Tables and sizing gets distorted depending on people's browser setting s
Great resource
What do you like best about the product?
Great way to work as a team and collaborate
What do you dislike about the product?
It was difficult on the initial implementation stage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having all information in one place easily accessible.
Tools used today
What do you like best about the product?
Awareness of tools used is a must today.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as this tool is very user friendly and easy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to use and helps in collaboration
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