The Anatomy of a High-Impact Team Homepage in Confluence

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When done right, a team homepage in Confluence becomes more than just a landing page. It becomes a real-time control center for your team’s work, priorities, and context.

But too often, team spaces turn into abandoned wiki shells. Outdated meeting notes. Unused templates. A sea of subpages with no clear purpose.

So what separates a high-impact team homepage from the rest?

Here’s what we’ve learned after building and evolving dozens of them across our organization.

1. Start with Purpose, Not a Template

Before you drop in a layout, ask:

• What does the team need to see every day?
• What decisions or actions should this page support?
• Who are the primary consumers - the team, leadership, cross-functional partners?

Let the answers shape the structure. A homepage that tries to do everything ends up doing nothing.

2. Highlight What’s Live and Important

Use macros to surface content that actually changes:

• Jira Issues for current sprint or priorities
• Page Properties Report to track OKRs, projects, or owners
• Recently Updated to show what’s moving
• Team Calendar to visualize PTO, milestones, and reviews

This keeps the homepage fresh and worth returning to.

3. Centralize Context

Reduce tab overload by embedding:

• Google Sheets, Box documents or diagrams directly on the page
• Short descriptions of linked tools or systems
• Slack channel info or communication norms
• “How we work” quick links (for new joiners or async teams)

If your team spends time answering the same questions, your homepage should answer them first.

4. Make It Actionable

Don’t just show status, show what’s next:

• Add a section for blockers, review requests, or upcoming decisions
• Use checklists or tasks (/action item) for team-level to-dos
• Consider tagging team members with responsibilities for each section

Your homepage isn’t just a mirror. It’s a workspace.

5. Test, Adapt, Evolve

Great homepages don’t stay static. Ours are constantly changing based on team needs, feedback, and rhythms.

• Run a quick retro every quarter:
• What are we not using anymore?
• What’s missing that people keep asking for?
• Is this page helping us move faster, or just adding clutter?

Bonus: What We’ve Found Works Well

Here’s a structure we’ve had success with:

• Weekly Focus / Priorities 
• Projects in Progress (linked to Jira)
• Calendar & Upcoming Events (including the team's time-off calendar)
• Blockers or Review Needs
• Announcements (our in-house macro that allows people to highlight important content)
• Tools & Quick Links
• Meet the Team (especially for cross-functional visibility)

It’s simple, but powerful and reduces context-switching by a surprising amount.

Have you built a team homepage that works?

Would love to hear what elements you’ve included or what didn’t work at all. Drop your tips or screenshots below.

[MJ]

I definitely agree with the idea of a landing page. This is also great for 'outsiders' that just want to know what the project is all about.

It helps to put the link to the landing page in your email signature... makes it very easy for people to find.

Do you have any screen shots?