If your team is deciding where specs, runbooks, meeting notes, and decision history should live, Confluence fits best when you want a shared workspace instead of scattered docs. It works well for teams that need page hierarchies, internal knowledge bases, and project spaces that stay readable after the first sprint, not just a blank editor that fills up with loose files.
The main question is whether your team will maintain pages after the initial push. Confluence is strongest when owners can keep structure, permissions, and page conventions tidy across engineering, product, support, and operations. Judge it by how quickly a new teammate can find the current spec, whether recurring documents stay current, and how well the workspace holds long-lived reference material without turning into an archive nobody trusts.
