{"id":1290,"date":"2015-08-16T02:20:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T08:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scaledagile.wpengine.com\/?post_type=case-study&p=1290"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:58:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:58:02","slug":"elekta","status":"publish","type":"case_study","link":"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/case_study\/elekta\/","title":{"rendered":"Elekta – Adopting SAFe for a Successful Lean-Agile Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Elekta is a human care company pioneering clinical solutions for treating cancer and brain disorders. They develop sophisticated, state-of-the-art tools and treatment planning systems for radiation therapy, radiosurgery and brachytherapy, as well as workflow enhancing software systems across the spectrum of cancer care. Headquartered in Stockholm, Elekta employs around 3,800 employees globally in 30 countries.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Every day 100,000 patients receive diagnosis, treatment or follow-up by an Elekta solution<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elekta\u2019s development goal is to enhance patient and customer value by providing solutions that improve, prolong and save lives better and faster. With teams working in several time zones, and individual members having different backgrounds and history working on separate products, their challenge was to create an environment where teams could better align with global priorities and with each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In 2007, Elekta adopted Scrum, but in their attempt to scale up, they saw that the Scrum teams were operating in silos which created issues with dependency, integration, and visibility of the big picture, all causing lack of clarity on overall objectives and plan. Wanting to address all areas of the enterprise, Elekta took a holistic view and introduced SAFe to their Scrum teams<\/a>, launching their first Agile Release Train (ART) in 2013. Soon thereafter, they expanded to the Program level and trained all of their teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, Elekta is running 4 ARTs with 20 teams across three continents.<\/strong> Their SAFe journey has delivered significant gains and improvements in several areas, provided valuable lessons learned, as well as a roadmap to refine their value streams, and tackle ongoing challenges, including a deeper integration of Lean-Agile practices at the Portfolio level. Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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