What is Simple Team Pages?

Most projects typically accumulate a wealth of information. This includes anything from workflow documentation, to requirements, to meeting notes, to shared credentials for test environments. All of these need to go somewhere.

Simple Team Pages makes it possible to create wiki style pages directly within each Jira project, so you can keep your documentation right where your actual work happens, inside of Jira.

interesting... but why would I want this instead of Confluence?

The answer to that is pretty simple: it depends on your needs, and just how deep your pockets are.

Confluence is the obvious choice for many companies when it comes to documentation. It’s been around for ages, has an abundance of features, an incredible amount of customization, and an ecosystem of thousands of plugins.

Essentially, it is the 1000-lb gorilla in the room. Of course, it also has the price tag and maintenance requirements that come along with that. (Especially given Atlassian's recent announcement to discontinue all Server products, forcing everyone to use either Cloud or Data Center)

If you’re in the situation where you need a big solution with a crazy amount of extensibility, and the staggering breadth of functionality that Confluence brings, and you don’t mind the price tag, then stop reading now and save yourself some time. We’re simply too small to compete with a billion dollar company on features alone.

If Confluence is overkill for your needs however...

or you’re tired of the maintenance it requires, or don't like waiting years for fixes, or it is simply getting too expensive for you, why not put your content where your team has to go already - right in Jira.

Simple Team Pages uses the same visual editor as Confluence, making it ideal for storing project requirements, documentation, meeting notes, contact lists for your team, and other important project information.

The added benefit is you inherit all your exhisting Jira permissions, and Simple Team Pages integrates deeply with Jira, making it easy to share content between pages and issues.