Is your team's Confluence home cosy and clean? Or perhaps a bit messy and hectic? With a number of new add-ons available, and a new version of the platform to build on, you can shape Confluence to suit your team's style and workflow. In this talk, we will show you how to build your teams' dream home in Conflulence. We will cover: New add-ons available in the marketplace and how you can easily integrate them with Confluence. New patterns such as page extensions, custom content, and themes and the use cases they solve. Products covered: Confluence

1. BEN MACKIE • CONFLUENCE HEAD OF ENG
Creating your team’s dream home in
Confluence
BRIAN SWIFT • PRODUCT MANAGER

2. What would you include in
your dream home?

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Use Confluence to create
your team’s dream home

8. Start with the
foundation
Add Modifications DIY
Building your team’s dream home

9. Start with the
foundation
Add Modifications DIY
Building your team’s dream home

10. Start with the foundation

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• Add-Ons in Marketplace

12. What do you need your
home to do?

13. Reference Documentation
Software Projects
Customer Projects
Community
Give each room a purpose

14. Project Collaboration

15. Team Knowledge

16. Reference Documentation

17. Reference Documentation

18. Reference Documentation

19. Community

20. Use spaces to do jobs
3 main content jobs
PROJECT COLLAB
Lightweight project planning and
collaboration on content.
REFERENCE DOCS
Self-serve material for your customers to find
the right answers and help you scale.
TEAM KNOWLEDGE
Capture team knowledge to be shared
and helps you work smarter.

21. Confluence org engagement
COMMUNITY
Connect people, ideas, and content across
my org to engage everyone and improve how
works gets done.
1 collective job

22. COMMUNITY
Connect people, ideas, and content across
my org to engage everyone and improve how
works gets done.
Job split in Confluence Cloud
Average customer size
Reference
28%
Team
30%
Project
31%
Other
11%

23. Best
Practices
Tailor each space
Ecosystem offerings
More than one space
Keep your team’s documentation
structured by using multiple spaces.
Evaluate which ecosystem add-ons
will help accelerate your team.
Align spaces with specific jobs and
structure to meet needs of team.

24. Start with the
foundation
Add Modifications DIY
Building your team’s dream home

25. Start with the
foundation
Add Modifications DIY
Building your team’s dream home

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Design the interior by using the
add-ons that your team needs

27. Reference Documentation
Software Projects
Customer Projects
Community
Furnish each room

28. Community
Furnish each room
Reference Documentation
Customer Projects
Software Projects

29. Envision Plan Act

30. Envision Plan Act

31. Envision Plan Act
Make life easy for designers
Prototypes can now live directly within
Confluence so everyone is always up to
speed with the latest designs.

32. Envision Plan Act
Wireframes for everyone
Use Balsamiq’s Confluence add-on so
everyone can collaborate on wireframes
right within your spec.
Easily create flow diagrams
Gliffy’s add-on allows all of your
engineers to collaborate on complex
project diagrams.

33. Envision Plan Act
Mind mapping and brainstorming
MindMeister can help you get the most
creativity out of everyone on your team
when envisioning the next big thing.

34. Envision Plan Act
Keep related pages together
Stop searching for your team’s meeting
notes by having them automatically filed
away in Confluence
Blueprints keep you focused
Confluence’s meeting blueprint helps
your team understand best practices and
get the most out of your meetings

35. Envision Plan Act
Easy updates
Adding or changing your roadmap can be
done within seconds.
Stay aligned
Add bars to your timeline and map out
roadmap for everyone to see.

36. Envision Plan Act
Planning made easy…and fun!
Use Planning with Cards to quickly and
accurately estimate your team’s sprint
together.

37. Envision Plan Act
Collaborate + Track
Keep your documentation and
tracking all in one place by linking
your JIRA and Confluence
projects.

38. Envision Plan Act
Learn as a team
Discuss what went well and what didn’t
go well as a team in real-time.

39. Envision Plan Act
Take action to improve
Vote on suggestions from your team,
create action items and assign owners to
keep improving.

40. Community
Furnish each room
Software Project
Reference Documentation
Customer Projects

41. Simple document approval
Manage doc approvals
For critical policy documentation,
make sure you get approval from key
stakeholders.

42. Simple document approval

43. Community
Furnish each room
Software Project
Reference Documentation
Customer Projects

46. Community
Furnish each room
Software Project
Reference Documentation
Customer Projects

47. Software Project
Community
Furnish each room
Reference Documentation
Customer Projects

48. • Big cool statistic
• 2,56
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• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Choose custom decorations to
make Confluence feel like home

54. Software Project
Community
Furnish each room
Reference Documentation
Customer Projects

55. Software Project
Community
Furnish each room
Reference Documentation
Customer Projects

56. Learn more at:
marketplace.atlassian.com/home/confluence

57. Start with the
foundation
Add Modifications DIY
Building your team’s dream home

58. Start with the
foundation
Add Modifications DIY
Building your team’s dream home

59. Why DIY on
Confluence?
Build
Integrate
Automate
content creation needs for
productivity and best practices
with additional systems to collaborate
on all content in one place
new content applications to meet
new use cases in Confluence

60. How do I get
stated?

61. Share publicly
(optional)
Build locally
Host privately Develop
Describe
Run

62. Share publicly
(optional)
Host privately
Build locally
Store
Host
Private
Listing

63. Host privately
Share publicly
(optional)
Build locally
(Entirely optional)

64. Get’s get to it!

65. Project 1: Integrate external content!
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74. Project 2: Best practice blueprints
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QUESTION
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Customer notes
CUSTOMERS
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95. API
Macros Custom content
Page extensions Search extensions
Blueprints
Theming
Confluence Connect Patterns

96. API
Macros Custom content
Page extensions Search extensions
Blueprints
Theming
Confluence Connect Patterns
developer.atlassian.com/confcloud

97. Confluence
dream home
building tips
Furnish with add-ons
You can DIY!
Spaces are like rooms
Create more, and give each one a
purpose.
Develop your own private or public
add-ons for productivity or profit.
Enhance the purpose of spaces for
your team with the marketplace.

98. Thank you!
BEN MACKIE • CONFLUENCE HEAD OF ENGBRIAN SWIFT • PRODUCT MANAGER