Atlassian Confluence - basic user review
January 17, 2018
Atlassian Confluence - basic user review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Atlassian Confluence
We (stake managers who write stories for the development team) use it for creating the backlog for the development team and the development team uses it for managing sprints. The interface is very intuitive, so even users with no experience or knowledge of the process can easily understand it. Confluence helps us prioritize different development tasks from the business and revenue standpoint and we can also track how successful our dev team was in each sprint, which makes estimation of the following sprits easier.
- Dashboard with backlog of dev tasks. Prioritization becomes just a matter of drugging items in the list and assigning points to each task. Super easy.
- Sprint reports are also very helpful, they allow us to estimate how successful was our last sprint and what should be changed to successfully finish next sprint on time.
- Cards for writing user stories are very intuitive and even people from production department, with no technical knowledge whatsoever can write a story.
- Integrations with major calendars (Google, Apple, Outlook etc.) would be a good idea.
- No other issues.
- The company has been using it since the beginning and it's hard to tell what impact Confluence had. The best way to estimate it's impact is to look at the company overall, and it's doing great, so ROI is definitely above 0%.
I wasn't selecting Confluence, when I joined the company in 2015; it was already in place.