Tag: project management
Create a kick ass team task report page in Confluence
Two of the key features of Confluence that I use religiously on all my projects is “Actions” and the “Task Report macro”. I find it super useful in keeping all my team’s actions in one place. However, the challenge I...
What’s your morning work ritual?
We hear a lot about star players such as Elon Musk or Tim Cook having a morning ritual, whether that be a workout, followed by meditation, followed by a super-green spirulina infused organic broccoli smoothie–all before 5 am! Whatever their routine is,...
Project plan like a boss with OmniPlan and Confluence
As a project manager, one of the key challenges I face on a daily basis is keeping the team and project stakeholders informed of changes to project timings. A much as we wished that our projects stuck to their original...
Task capturing made simple with Amazon’s Echo and Trello
I recently bought an Amazon Echo and so far I have been super impressed with the device. One thing I was interested in exploring was using Alexa to capture tasks. My Girlfriend and I use a shared Trello board to...
No need to repeat yourself in Confluence
In this post, we’re going to look at one of my favourite macros the ‘include page‘ macro What can this macro do for us? the include page macro is super powerful, it allows you to take a page in somewhere in...
How to create your own Confluence blueprints
In this post, we’re going to look at how to create your own custom Confluence blueprints. However, before we jump into the details, let’s take a step back and ask… What is a Confluence Blueprint? The easiest way to think about...
Create a team page in Confluence
In this post, we’re going to look how to create a team page in Confluence. This page will list all the resources and stakeholders on your project, including their roles, responsibilities and contact details. We will construct this page from the point...
Create a kick ass visual navigation for your space homepage in Confluence
Consider how much time both yourself and your team spend in Confluence. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a user interface to navigate through your space that’s intuitive to use and easy on the eyes? How often do you see...
Create custom pages by combining macros in Confluence
In this post, I would like to spark your imagination around how you can build up super useful pages by combining macros into a single page. Nothing too groundbreaking here from a technical point of view. I simply would like...
Roadmap like a boss!
In this post, we’ll look at how to create an awesome roadmap using Confluence’s road mapping planner macro. This roadmap will give your team visibility over their current and future work streams, dependencies on internal or external events and deep...