When:
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 - 15:00 to 15:50 CDT
Room:
Salon A-5 (LL)
Track:
SVG
development & coding

Migrate Smarter: How a Structured AI Methodology Unlocked a Complex Drupal 7 to 11 Migration

Migrate Smarter: How a Structured AI Methodology Unlocked a Complex Drupal 7 to 11 Migration

Migrating a 15-year-old Italian humor site (132K nodes, 100K newsletter subscribers, 18 custom modules, 93 contrib modules, and a MailUp integration) to Drupal 11 is the kind of project that traditionally requires a team, months of work, and a budget that's hard to swallow. This session shows how a structured, artifact-driven AI methodology rewrote that calculus on a real, completed project.

Tag1 Senior Architect Marco Molinari applied BMAD (Breakthrough Method for Agile AI-Driven Development) to deliver 40+ stories across 5 epics, migrating 300K entities, building 6 custom Drupal 11 modules, and completing integrations with Cloudflare, MailUp OAuth2, and Iubenda GDPR. Zero blockers. 100% story completion. The kind of results that redefine what's possible within a client budget.

Drupal 11's clean architecture (Composer-based dependencies, config sync, typed services) proved to be a real advantage; these are patterns AI can reason about reliably in ways that Drupal 7's hook-heavy approach never allowed.

Marco covers what worked, what didn't, and what this approach genuinely demands in time and expertise. Attendees leave with concrete practices and an honest picture of where AI-assisted development delivers and where experienced judgment is still irreplaceable.