Integrating collaboration tools with can help you plan and run your project more efficiently. Connect to Hipchat (group and private chat), Confluence (wiki), or Team Calendars for Confluence to get issue notifications in your chat rooms, link project documentation to stories and epics, centralize your team leave, and more.
Connecting 
to your collaboration tools
Follow the instructions on (
documentation) to connect
to Confluence and/or Hipchat.
Note:
- You need to be a
administrator to connect
- You need to be a
Feature overview
If you have , Hipchat, Confluence, and Team Calendars for Confluence, you can use them together to build stronger user stories and better plans for sprints or releases, while streamlining your team's work. Create meeting notes on the fly, wrap up a sprint with a retrospective report, and more.
Here are some of the features that you'll unlock by integrating and Confluence. For a full feature overview, see Using Jira applications with Hipchat and Using Jira applications with Confluence.
Plan epics
If you have linked your instance to a Confluence instance, you can create and link Confluence pages to your epics. For example, you may want to link your epic to a specification or design document in Confluence.
Manage sprints
If you have linked your instance to a Confluence instance, you can create and link Confluence pages to your sprints via
. For example, you may want to write up the sprint meeting notes in Confluence and link them to the sprint. You may also want to write your team's retrospective notes in Confluence and link them to the Sprint Report for the completed sprint.
If you have linked your project to HipChat as well, notifications will be posted in your chat room whenever issues are created or updated, helping everyone keep track of what's going on in the sprint.
Manage releases
The release is underway. Provide your stakeholders with updates on how the release is going, by creating status reports in Confluence. The
status report provides a snapshot of the release at a point in time. Stakeholders can monitor progress, even if they don't have access to
.