How to Make, Manage, and Sign Contracts in Confluence

Many of these tools don’t integrate with each other, putting teams and their data into silos. Silos that breed delays and replication in the contract management process.

With so many more people now working remotely, silos are becoming harder to maintain. Increasing numbers of organizations are looking to centralize their data and achieve a single source of truth, in order to alleviate the confusion and poor data quality that comes from having distributed teams spread across time zones, all working off different information. And they’re doing this by moving all of their employees onto a single platform for document management.

Organizations already using Jira for work management and service, IT requests are naturally looking at Confluence, Jira’s sister platform, as a means of making, managing, and perhaps even signing contracts.

Jira Service Management might already play a part in your contract management process, i.e. you use tickets to get other teams, like legal or finance, to review statements of work from vendors.

But it could be that the agreements themselves are made using various tools – Word, Google Docs, DocuSign – and stored in various places – shared folders, cloud drives, actual physical filing cabinets.

Basically, it’s a mess. Wouldn’t it be nice to tidy it all up?

In our latest article we talk about why Confluence is becoming such a popular use case for contract management, and how to harness the power of Confluence and Jira together to turn your contract management process into a well-oiled machine.

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Digitally Sign Contracts in Confluence [with Old Street’s Brand New App]

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Confluence is already an ideal place to be creating, managing, and storing your contracts. Of course, the most important feature of any contract is the signatures of the parties. It’s not an agreement till someone agrees to it.

And yet, there’s no way of digitally signing contracts inside Confluence. You’d need to export it and use another digital signature tool like DocuSign, taking the process and the audit trail outside of the platform you’re working in.

Well, you used to need to. You don’t anymore. Enter *drum roll please* Contract Signatures for Confluence, an app to let you digitally sign contracts directly inside Confluence.

Now available to try for free on the Atlassian Marketplace, this app is a bit like External Share for Confluence, which lets you share Confluence pages with users who aren’t on your instance. But this time, you’re sending a Confluence contract to a signee, who is then able to click a button and upload their signature (along with other optional inputs like dates and text).

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How Atlassian Has Changed in 10 Years

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Team ‘22, Atlassian’s flagship international conference, is about to return to Las Vegas to the buzzing excitement of everyone in the space. To celebrate, Old Street Solutions have decided to take a candid look back at the last 10 years of Atlassian and an equally honest look forward to the next 10.

2022 is quite a special year for Atlassian. For one, after two years of fully virtual summits thanks to you-know-bloody-what, Team ‘22 is once again an in-person event. For another, it’s the 20th anniversary of Atlassian. 20 years since Australian university graduates Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar decided to found a company because they didn’t want to wear a suit or get a 9-5 job. 20 years since they bootstrapped their startup with a $10,000 credit card and hired a bunch of their mates with no set idea of what they were actually going to sell apart from “software”.

A lot’s happened. And a lot’s changed. But let’s fast forward past the first 10 years of Atlassian’s story and focus on the last, shall we say, tumultuous decade.

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Controlling Who Sees Your External Share for Confluence and Jira Links

Companies have been asking us for a way of restricting which users can see their External Share links. Previously, you could create a secure link to your Confluence page or Jira issue and share it with a chosen person outside your instance. That link was always safe from a randomer on the internet finding it, thanks to its unguessable 16-character URL. It could be protected further by adding a password, making the page or issue inaccessible to anyone without it.

However, there was nothing to stop the person you share the link with from passing it on to someone else. Even if it’s password-protected, that person could just share the password and the other user would be able to get access. This, of course, gave way to a rather prevalent security limit, which has been taken to task and is now a thing of the past. With the ‘Selected users’ function for your Confluence and Jira instance, you no longer need to fret about security breaches.

This powerful feature stops sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands. If you have data on a Confluence page or Jira issue that you want to make sure goes no further than the external user/s you’re sending it to, then you can easily restrict the visibility of the page to just those select few users.

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How to Do Cross-Project Reporting in Jira

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Cross-project reporting is about capturing the whole story for your team or boss so that you can motivate your people, monitor their workloads, balance priorities, and identify bottlenecks.

So how do you generate a report that will present the most important information from multiple projects and assure that it stays in the minds of those viewing it? It’s actually pretty simple and quick and you don’t need much knowledge of Jira to do it. What you do need is Custom Charts for Jira or Custom Jira Charts for Confluence. These are dashboard reporting apps that let you create beautiful and targeted cross-project reports using handy dropdowns and drag and drop. You can then present these reports to Jira and Confluence users, to customers via the Jira Service Management portal, and in time, to everyone, everywhere.

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Beautiful Jira wallboards for remote and office workers

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Traditionally, wallboards are an office thing. Aka big visual charts (BVCs) and information radiators, they display key team and project status information on the office wall. Team members get updates on what’s happening as they pass or wait for the kettle to boil, or better yet, when they look up from their desks.

In the old days, these wallboards were printed displays or even hand-drawn ones. Nowadays they’re one of the many screens that dominate our lives (sorry, went a bit Black Mirror on you then). Big wall-mounted TVs or monitors show continuously and automatically updated graphs and charts to everybody in the office. In Jira you can turn many dashboards into a wallboard simply by choosing your dashboard from the sidebar and clicking ••• > View as wallboard.

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How to Use Jira for Waterfall and Hybrid Projects (White Paper Extract)

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Two big circles, one with waterfall project management in, the other with agile project management in, overlapping - with hybrid written in the overlap.

Even though Jira is officially an agile project management system, purely agile projects are rare in real life. Most project managers still practice waterfall project management to an extent. And although most development teams have been using agile methodologies to build software for years, business teams such as HR, marketing, and legal haven’t.

So, can Jira still work for teams and managers doing waterfall? The answer is yes, it can. However, Jira is best suited to teams and managers who may be doing waterfall now but want to transition to a more agile way of working in the future.

As it happens, that’s what most teams and managers these days want, particularly as the global shift to remote working is forcing organizations to become more agile. But while these organizations may understand the benefits of agile, embracing it is easier said than done for teams who are used to the hierarchies and forward momentum that characterize waterfall. That’s why a platform that enables them to continue doing waterfall to a certain degree, and introduce agile practices gradually, is the best fit.

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Replacing Rich Filters when Migrating to Jira Cloud

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If you’re among the many companies moving to Atlassian’s cloud offering following the announcement about the end of life of their server products, you’re probably starting to take stock of the marketplace apps in your instances. (And if you’re not, you should be).

This is one of the first parts of the migration process and particularly important because many apps are either not available on Jira or Confluence Cloud, or have different functionality. On top of that, some apps are available on all platforms but require additional migration effort.

In this article we’ll talk about what to do if you’re using Rich Filters in your Server or Data Center Jira instances but will be moving to Jira Cloud, where Rich Filters is not available.

Since Rich Filters is not compatible with Jira Cloud, your organization is going to need to do one of two things.

If you’re not willing to lose dynamic dashboard reporting, you’re probably going to want to go down path number 1. Check out this post to see a feature comparison between the two apps, but the TL;DR is that you’ll be able to recreate most, if not all, of your dashboards more easily than ever before.

One of the strongest arguments for Custom Charts for Jira is its ease of use. Every user in your instance can create their own charts, which means that the administrative overhead of moving to a new app is distributed throughout the organization. Before you’d have to teach users how to navigate the Rich Filters setup and navigation menus before even starting to build a dashboard. Now everyone will be able to simply add gadgets to their Jira dashboards and get straight to building reports and tables.

Let’s walk through some of the key functionality enabling easy user adoption.

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