Confluence vs Pivotal Tracker

• Confluence provides the ability to any employee to create content as they see fit, democratizing the content creation process
• The parent and child relationships between pages makes organizing your content much easier.
• If you're also using Jira as your task management software, the native integration allows you to work in both systems and share content and data between the two, seamlessly.

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• Pivotal Tracker helps our team visualize our projects in the form of stories (virtual cards) moving through our workflow. This encourages us to break down projects into manageable chunks and have important conversations about deliverables and scope.
• The forced-prioritization allows our team to have a shared understanding about what is most important and make collective decisions about what our team will work on next.
• By dividing future iterations by our team's velocity, Pivotal Tracker accurately predicts when we will complete future work.

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• Search. The search functionality of Confluence is not that great. When typing a search there are often dozens or hundreds of irrelevant pages and you can't see enough in the search results to know which page you are looking for so it can sometimes be hard to find information you are looking for.
• Over-notification. If you subscribe to an active group, you will get a notification every time something changes. This means that if someone is actively updating during a meeting (taking minutes), you could receive several notification for the same set of changes.

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• Categorization of Stories. It would be nice to have the ability to create our own custom categories on top of the backlog, ice box and my work sections.
• Time lines; although we can put in stars for level of difficulty; it would be more beneficial if we can add in due dates, benchmarks and time lines into the system. This would allow us to easily calculate projects and the resource allocation.
• Reports; although we can export and review our history, it would be nice to have the ability to pull reports on progress, % of story completion, and success rate.

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• Overall, I think the impact of Confluence has been positive. As a remote team, it simplifies process and communication for us.
• Confluence streamlines group work and tasks to make it clear who is doing what they should be doing
• Some of my employees do complain that confluence is hard to use and that they can't navigate around very well.

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• Time is money with development and a lot of things can fall through the cracks. Having a good system for making sure you're building the most relevant product for customers is really important so it was well worth it for us.
• The process we used worked for us and it helped us streamline our development which reduced a lot of things falling through the cracks and headaches. I'm sure there are other products that can do the same job just as effectively but Pivotal Tracker worked well for us.

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