You can simplify your planning with four different calendar views-list, week, month, and timeline-and make it dead simple to track your team’s schedule as macro or as micro as you like. But there are times when you need to zoom out and think about the bigger picture, or zoom in and focus on a single day or week. Planning a month at a time is standard when it comes to mapping things out on a calendar. If you’ve got an event, there’s an icon for it.Īt the end of the day, you and your team can build a single calendar that tracks everything that’s important. You can build a better calendar and keep your team aligned with 13 different icons for events like system maintenance, work from home days, company-wide meetings, training sessions, and even your team’s weekly happy hour. You can even add custom event types to your calendar. It’s easy to create a single calendar for your team or project and fill it with different types of events-travel, leave, events, JIRA versions, issues and sprints, and more. Team Calendars provides one place for teams to track common schedules in Confluence. The events are disconnected from where you actually do your work.It’s even harder for people from other teams to discover and subscribe to the calendar.It’s hard for new teammates to discover and subscribe to the calendar.It’s difficult for other teammates to add events.You have to follow a ton of different calendars.If you’re currently using a personal calendar to keep track of team events like leave, travel, or project milestones, you’re likely aware of these problems. 1. Personal calendars don’t scale for teams In this blog post, I’ll share how Team Calendars, an add-on for Confluence, our team collaboration platform, can be used to improve team planning and defend against future “Oh Shit” moments. These moments are standard for any group of people attempting to work as a team. Trying to juggle all these events is what usually leads to an “Oh Shit!” moment-when you suddenly realize you’re going to miss a deadline, or a feature has to be pulled from an upcoming release. With each person’s different projects, leave requests, and travel plans, keeping everyone on the same page is nearly impossible. What a personal calendar is NOT great for is keeping track of what everyone on your team is doing. A personal calendar is great for keeping track of your schedule-meetings, appointments, dinner plans.