Drupal Platforms: A How-to Guide

Drupal Platforms A How-To Guide MARCH 2025

Disclaimer 45 min is not enough time for an exhaustive how-to guide, but we will touch on key points. Feel free to reach out to chat more about this anytime! 2

Drupal Platforms : A How-to Guide Overview 01 02 03 04 Intro Planning Building Supporting • Who Am I • Governance • Architecture • Automation • A Little Background • Business Objectives • Drupal • Updates • Design System • Drupal Recipes • New Features • 3rd Party integrations • Drupal CMS • User Communications 3

WHO AM I John Picozzi Solution Architect I believe strongly in contributing to the Drupal community and supporting open source in any way I can. I’m the organizer of the Drupal Providence Meetup, an Acquia-certified Site Builder, a co-host on Talking Drupal, and a co-organizer of the New England Drupal Camp. Throughout my career I have crafted Drupal solutions for many organizations like CVS Caremark, Leica Geosystems, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Marriott Hotels, Rhode Island School of Design and Novartis. EPAM Proprietary & Confidential. 4

A Little Background… I have been working on Drupal based web platforms for a while. 55

01 Planning Plans are nothing; planning is everything. - Dwight D. Eisenhower 6

PLANNING Governance Organizational Buy-In & Building a Value Proposition A Better Use of Budgets & Resources Build Lasting Relationships with Your Users Think about the value that your platform will Well-thought-out Drupal Platforms with Building an effective platform and governance bring to your organization and be able to strong governance can lead to better use of strategy relies on relationships with your articulate it to stakeholders. Get them excited budgets and streamline feature users. Make sure they have a seat at the table about the benefits your platform provides. improvements and resource allocation. during planning. 7

PLANNING Business Objectives Build your platform for the right reasons… Bring your brand/users into the conversation to ensure you are bringing value and meeting expectations. Listen to your users when they say they want faster time to market or need to be more efficient with their budgets. 8

Design Systems 9

3rd Party Integrations 10

02 Building Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. - Julia Morgan 11

BUILDING Architecture Drupal Architecture Headless / Decoupled / Coupled Composable / Integrations Hosting Architecture ● Content Types ● API First / Headless ● Structured vs Composable ● Hosted Solutions ● Taxonomies ● Decoupled vs Coupled ● Paragraphs vs Layout Builder ● Upstreams ● Modules to Use ● Pros & Cons ● Plan Your Integrations ● PaaS ● Custom Modules to Create ● Maturity of Organization ● Multi-site 12

Drupal Recipes Drupal CMS How do Drupal recipes help? Does Drupal CMS make things easier? 13

03 Supporting In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up. - Taylor Swift 14

Automation Updates / New Features User Communications Continuous Improvement & Enhancement New Features To Move The Platform Forward Keep People Excited - Think Apple 15

Helpful Resources Links to slides & other items referenced in this presentation. Enjoy! https://picozzi.com/drupalcampnj2025 16

Thank you! For more information, contact John E. Picozzi Solution Architect [email protected] @johnpicozzi 17