Using Confluence in mechanical engineering teams

Joris Tuit

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a project to improve collaboration for a company with both software and mechanical engineering teams.

Our software team already uses Confluence successfully, but the mechanical engineers have a different workflow, and we’re exploring how to support them better.

I’d love to hear from anyone who has experience using Confluence in a mechanical engineering environment.

If you're open to a quick chat or have tips to share, I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks a lot!

Piyush Annadate _ACE Pune_

Hello @Joris Tuit ,
Welcome to the Community !!
That's an interesting question. The use of workflows often depends not just on fulfilling a team's immediate process needs, but also on improving and evolving their overall way of working.
When you mention "workflow," are you referring to the internal process steps, or more broadly to project management within Jira?

As your teams may grow in the future, it would be beneficial to create dedicated templates for each engineering sub-team. This ensures that teams can follow a stable process over the long term, and any future process improvements can be easily rolled out to all teams consistently.
Templates should be designed carefully, based on requirement mapping, process refinement, and usability.

For example, you could create a dedicated Jira project for each team, with customized workflows and screens that reflect their specific processes. Of course, we want to avoid disrupting existing workflows. Instead, through careful refinement, you can align different team processes while preserving stability, and build a connected, scalable system for the future.

Here, can yo provide more details about mechanical engineers process agenda? 
Is that for Documentation only?
Or is it for both management and documentation purposes?
Are they having both ITSM and DevOps inline process as well?