Preface
The previous two articles talk about project management tools at the code level. This article will introduce the knowledge management tools, which are also part of project management. When it comes to knowledge management, what do you think? Woven network? Find a node? Yes, this is personal knowledge management. What about a project or an enterprise? How should enterprises build networks and find nodes. You must have heard of the word wiki. Confluence is an enterprise wiki software based on knowledge management.
A little order
I have been thinking about it for a while before the beginning, and I have been thinking about how to make a pen to explain it thoroughly. I checked the relevant information on the Internet. I feel that there are not many such materials. Most of the only materials are about the advantages of confluence and the most basic installation tutorials. Based on this consideration, I plan to give a brief introduction to confluence based on the usage in the project.
Introduction
Before introducing confluence, you must first understand the word wiki. So what is wiki? Wiki is a Web site that allows people to easily publish information and link it together. Wiki is an online communication software that is ideal for online information collaboration and communication. Wiki has become more and more popular in recent years. People use Wiki as a knowledge base and an online encyclopedia, and enterprises use Wiki as a simple and effective method, share content and information within the enterprise and with external business partners.
Confluence is an enterprise-level wiki software. Any enterprise organization, department, or team can use wiki to share information and content. Currently, more than 7100 users in various industries around the world are using confluence, including many large enterprises and small companies. In terms of security, confluence has comprehensive and fine-grained permission control, allowing users to create, edit, and add comments in the Wiki. Confluence is intuitive and easy to use. You can use it without learning any new language and add content to confluence in WYSIWYG mode.
Basic Concepts
Dashboard is the home page of your confluence system. The dashboard contains a list of all spaces on the confluence site. There is also a list of recently updated content.
A space is an area in the confluence system that stores your Wiki page. You can use a space as a subsite or a small site. Each space has its own home page.
In the confluence system, pages are the main way to store and share information. Pages can be linked, connected, organized, and accessed, and organized into a large space:
- You can add connections between pages and other web sites;
- You can upload existing documents and images to the page;
- Every page can be changed to a topic for discussion, just like a forum;
- All pages, files, and comments can be searched;
- The page can be organized into an inherited relationship to facilitate user browsing and drilling;
Function
Feelings
The above briefly introduces the basic concepts and functions of confluence. Since there are not many employees in my current company, there is no good knowledge management software before this distributed integration platform. In the past, all kinds of project documents were manually maintained and managed by a dedicated person. As this project is still relatively large, the company's boss decided to introduce a knowledge management tool. After many surveys, he finally decided to use confluence with a large number of user groups. Of course, another reason for deciding to use Confluence is that learning costs are low.
With confluence, the company's knowledge management will be established immediately. The company's previous projects, various documents involved, various technical exchange documents, and summary of various technologies have all been well managed on confluence. At the same time, confluence played a major role in developing this distributed project. Designers and developers can share documents from confluence, Download shared resources, exchange technical difficulties, share the latest technologies, and share daily morning meeting records, weekly meeting records, and review meeting records. In this way, the original file cannot be found.
PS: Before Confluence is installed, JDK must be installed and the environment variable java_home must be configured. In addition, MySQL must be installed and the confluence database must be created as required.
Conclusion
After talking about this, we actually talked about the usage experience of the project around confluence. Is this advertising? Haha. However, it is undeniable that through the use of confluence, the company's knowledge management is more standardized than the original, and the project development is smoother.
Project management tools-Confluence
