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Use Confluence for software teams

Welcome to the Software Team's guide to using Confluence. 

Check out the articles in this collection or download the Software Team's Guide to Confluence ebook to get all of these tips in one place:

How to write product
requirements

How to build a release
planning page

Creating insightful customer
interview pages

Create sprint retrospective
and demo pages (like a BOSS)

How to make better decisions
as a development team

How to document releases
and share release notes

Use blogs to share your development
team's progress

How to create technical and
onboarding documentation



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Last modified on Jan 11, 2019

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