Open any mid-sized company Confluence instance and the page called "Q3 Events" is almost certainly a table. That is not a discipline problem - a table is a bad fit for the job.
A flowchart takes three seconds to read. The same thing written as a paragraph takes three minutes. Mermaid puts the diagram in the page itself, so it stops drifting out of sync with the text.
Thirty stakeholders needed to track progress. Paying for 30 seats was a budget no-go, and guest accounts were an admin burden. Here is the Forge-based middle ground we shipped instead.
External Share & Public Links for Jira turns a single work item or board into a read-only public link. Readers open it in a browser, without a Jira account or a Jira license.