Organizational Transformation with Scrum: How a Venture Capital Group Gets Twice as Much Done with Half the Work

OpenView Venture Partners is a venture capital fund that uses Scrum as best practice in software development and for project management in all other parts of the organization. OpenView is the first high-performance non-software Scrums that has documented twice as much value produced in fewer working hours. The model at OpenView provides a working manual on how to do Scrum outside of software development. Their aggressive removal of impediments (take no prisoners!) distinguishes them from Scrum implementations that are captive of their institutionalized waste. The founder of OpenView saw that maximum productivity in Scrum occurs at a sustainable pace with less hours of work per week than without Scrum. He set the goal of reducing hours of work while doubling production and the Scrum teams exceeded his expectations. Focus on removal of impediments led to reorganization of the teams several times a year and showed how to capitalize on Scrum as a powerful organizational transformation tool.