Automation is one of the cornerstones of DevOps, playing a key role in helping organizations automate mundane tasks and eliminate the potential for human error. A successful DevOps transition, however, requires more than simply putting some new processes and procedures in place. It means developing a culture of collaboration and trust, and Confluence is one of the tools that can help you build that.
In a recent blog, Atlassian highlighted six pages across four categories—flow, feedback, experimentation, and team building—that can help teams improve how they communicate and work together. We’ve summarized their points here for you, though if you’d like to read the full article you can do so here.
Flow
1. Project Posters
When it gets busy, it becomes all too easy to get bogged down in day-to-day tasks and lose sight of larger objectives. Project posters can help you overcome that by making sure teams can always see:
- Why the project is being undertaken.
- How progress and success will be determined.
- The information you already have, and the questions to which you need answers.
Click here to check out an Atlassian Playbook devoted to project posters.
2. Planning Pages
Early on in a project’s lifecycle, your needs may appear to conflict with each other. On the one hand you need clear organization so your goals and objectives can be tracked in a central location, but on the other you must be flexible and adaptable to keep pace with dynamic and evolving needs.
Confluence makes it possible to achieve both in one place by:
- Creating custom roadmaps.
- Sharing statuses and deadlines with all team members.
- Ensuring all tickets and tasks are kept in one spot.
- Adapting to accommodate real-time adjustments.
Click here to read more about planning better roadmaps in Confluence.
Feedback
3. Incident Reviews and Retrospectives
When reviewing incidents, organizations have two goals: determine what happened, and understand what needs to be done to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Post-incident reviews (PIRs) and retrospectives have different, but equally important, roles in this process:
- The purpose of a PIR is to give you an in-depth look at each individual incident.
- Retrospectives, by comparison, serve as reflections of your team’s holistic performance.
Together, PIRs and retrospectives streamline incident-related communication by keeping it structured, focused, and productive.
4. Health Monitors
Atlassian’s health monitors give your teams the opportunity to assess themselves against eight key attributes, identify their areas of strength, and develop a plan to tackle their weak spots.
Like project posters, Atlassian has a Team Playbook for health monitors too. Click here to view it!
Experimentation
5. Definitions, Targets, and Results
As projects progress, your teams need somewhere to define their experiments, discuss targets, and evaluate outcomes—enabling them to make data-driven decisions and work better together.
Team Building
6. Introduction Blogs
When used effectively, introductory blogs can help to promote positive team interactions. They can make it easier for new members to share information about themselves and start conversations, all things that will strengthen DevOps overall.
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