Build your team's Drupal and GovCMS capability

Relying entirely on external suppliers can create long lead times and leave important knowledge outside your organisation. Building internal capability takes structured learning, practical experience and support from people who use Drupal every day.

TrueCMS builds capability through hands-on training, guided practice and useful documentation. We tailor the program to the roles, goals and real work of your team, from content administration to advanced development and responsible use of AI tools.

Whether you are building a new team or developing existing staff, people leave with skills they can apply to their work straight away.

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What you get

Hands-On Training: Learning by building real features on your actual projects
Pair Programming: Working alongside experienced Drupal developers on production code
Code Reviews: Detailed feedback on code quality, architecture, and best practices
CI/CD Training: Learning to build and maintain automated deployment pipelines
Testing Practices: Writing effective unit, integration, and functional tests
Drupal Standards: Following coding standards and contribution best practices
Custom Curriculum: Training tailored to your team's experience level and project needs
Ongoing Mentoring: Continued support after initial training through Slack and regular check-ins

Essentials

Level‑up editors, site owners, and product teams with the day‑to‑day skills to run platforms confidently.

GovCMS Site Builder

1–2 days. Content modelling, Views, Layout Builder, roles/permissions, configuration management, and SaaS guardrails.

GovCMS Site Administration

1 day. User management, workflows, governance, release hygiene on SaaS, backups/restore, and operational guardrails.

Development Bootcamps

Designed for engineers. Hands‑on labs, code reviews, and take‑home exercises.

Drupal Module Development

2–3 days. Services/plugins, hooks, routing/controllers, forms, config schema, events, PHPUnit, and safe extension patterns.

Drupal Theme Development

2 days. Twig, asset libraries, theme debugging, component patterns, accessibility, and working with base/admin themes.

Delivery Excellence

Move from ad‑hoc releases to predictable, quality‑gated delivery.

Dev Workflow & CI/CD

1 day. Git strategy, PR reviews, PHPUnit/Behat basics, quality gates, and pipeline patterns for Drupal/GovCMS.

Performance & Optimisation

1 day. Caching layers, query tuning, image/styles strategy, logging/observability, and avoiding common production pitfalls.

AI Enablement

1 day. Safely adopt AI coding assistants (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex) in agency/corporate environments. Learn prompt patterns for code/search/tests, privacy & IP guardrails, and ways to integrate AI into reviews and CI. We also cover test‑driven development (TDD) and specs‑driven development workflows so AI assists rather than bypasses your quality gates. Walk away with a playbook and guardrails.

Custom options are available. We’ll tailor topics and labs to your stack and operating model.

How we build capability

Skills Assessment: Understanding current team capabilities and knowledge gaps
Custom Curriculum: Designing training program based on your projects and goals
Hands-On Learning: Building real features with guidance and code reviews
Pair Programming: Working alongside your developers on production code
Progressive Complexity: Starting with fundamentals and building to advanced topics
Real-World Application: Applying skills immediately to your actual projects
Knowledge Documentation: Creating team-specific documentation and runbooks
Ongoing Support: Continued mentoring and code reviews after formal training

Who this is for

Internal Development Teams: Building Drupal capability to reduce agency dependency
Government Agencies: Developing in-house expertise for GovCMS maintenance and development
Digital Agencies: Upskilling teams to deliver modern Drupal projects with CI/CD
New Drupal Teams: Transitioning from other platforms or starting Drupal development

Delivery & Format

On‑site (Australia‑wide) or Remote

We deliver on location or via Zoom/Teams. Travel and accommodation are additional when applicable.

Hands‑on Labs

Use your codebase (preferred) or our curated exercises to ensure immediate applicability.

Mentoring & Code Review

Ongoing guidance after the course via scheduled reviews and Slack for Q&A.

Pricing

From $600 per day (ex‑GST), plus a fixed per‑participant fee (varies by course and group size). Minimum 4 and maximum 12 participants apply.
Travel & accommodation may be added for on‑site delivery outside our base locations.
We’ll provide a written quotation with inclusions, schedule, and prerequisites.

Use the “Request a Training Quote” CTA to tell us your preferred topics, delivery mode (on‑site/remote), and dates.

Helpful Resources

Shortlist of public references we point teams to for ongoing learning:

GovCMS Training

Official hub • Content Administration • Site Builder

Drupal Guides

User Guide • Administration • Modules • Theming

Why choose TrueCMS for enablement

Our training is grounded in current Drupal and GovCMS delivery work. We connect each topic to the decisions and tasks participants handle in their own roles.

For technical teams, this can include testing, code review and release automation. For site owners and editors, it can cover publishing, accessibility and day-to-day administration.

The goal is greater confidence and capability, with practical resources your team can continue using after the training.

Meet the Trainer

Ivan Grynenko - Founder & Lead Trainer

Ivan has 17 years in Drupal and a decade in GovCMS, delivering training and enablement for government, enterprise, and agency teams. He combines hands‑on engineering with clear, structured instruction grounded in modern delivery practices (tests, reviews, CI/CD) and accessible, standards‑aligned front‑end work.

Request a quotation and we’ll align topics and labs to your stack, sprint cadence, and governance needs.