Free Drupal 2 Hour Project Management Intro

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Drupal Development is a specialty, so is Drupal Project Management. What do you need to know about project management and Drupal to help you manage more successfully? This class is designed to help you understand all the stages of Drupal project development and how you can support your team to deliver the best possible outcomes. We’ll also talk about what the recent release of Drupal 8 means for project managers and how to assess which version of Drupal is best for you.

In this full day class you’ll learn about:

  • open source fundamentals
  • basic Drupal application concepts
  • Drupal terminology
  • basic site building
  • the role of the Drupal PM
  • project management methodologies and tools
  • phases of a Drupal project
  • how to build project work plans
  • how to align your project plan with development best practices
  • development workflow and coding standards
  • tips for finding Drupal talent, better design and UX, and effective content strategy
  • what Drupal 8 means for project managers

Meet your trainer

Ray Saltini has been an active member of the Drupal community since 2005 as a developer, business owner and more recently as a Drupal Evangelist for FFW. As Director of the FFW Center of Excellence he helps Fortune 100 organizations adopt Drupal and has delivered training and talks in the US and Europe at community events and private engagements, including free and reduced price training for folks just starting to learn Drupal. 

Why be a builder?

Today's websites are dynamic, feature-rich, and very often collaboratively managed. In the old days, the cost and knowledge required to create such sites would put them out of reach for all but the most skilled developers and largest organizations.

Not anymore.

The growth of powerful CMSs like Drupal has brought us to the world of the 'assembled web,' where sites are largely made up of pre-built components that are combined and configured--not custom-coded. 

Yesterday's code-centric webmaster has evolved into the experience-centric site builder.

Drupal, with its contributed (in other words, FREE) modules and themes, gives the site builder an incredibly powerful and flexible toolkit. These tools make it possible to build sites that are interactive, easily integrated with popular services and applications, infinitely customizable, and capable of supporting multiple classes of users…all without writing a line of code.

Join us and discover what you are capable of when you build with Drupal!

Track: Developing with Drupal

Location: 

Online This is an online event.

Training provided by:

FFW