Case Study: Fotolog accelerates agile adoption and gains clear project visibility with CollabNet VersionOne

Fotolog - Customer Case Study

Fotolog, a Hi‑Media photo‑blogging site with over 18 million members, faced growing pains after adopting Extreme Programming: development was chaotic, reporting and effort tracking were lacking, and distributed teams in the US, France and Brazil struggled to coordinate. Management brought in agile coach Emmanuel Szabados to stabilize the process and find a tool that would support a hybrid XP/Scrum approach and provide enterprise‑level reporting and visibility.

Szabados introduced a Scrum+XP hybrid and Fotolog selected VersionOne for its built‑in agile workflow, reporting and ease of use. The centralized tool sped the team’s learning curve, reinforced agile concepts, improved cross‑team communication, standardized burndown and status reporting, and delivered at‑a‑glance task tracking via a visual board—resulting in better planning, visibility and more predictable delivery with minimal training overhead.

Fotolog

Emmanuel Szabados

Agile Coach