About the Author

Zuzana Šochová, Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and Certified Agile Leadership Educator (CALE), has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. She led one of the very first agile international projects in the Czech Republic, focusing on distributed Scrum teams, working in different time zones between Europe and the United States. Now she is a leading expert on agile and Scrum practices in both startups and big corporations. She has experience with agile adoption in telco, finance, health care, automotive, mobile, and high-tech software companies. She’s been helping companies with agile and Scrum across Europe, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States.

Zuzi has worked in various positions, starting as a software developer for life- and mission-critical systems, continuing as a ScrumMaster and director of engineering and director of HR. She has been working as an independent agile coach and trainer since 2010, specializing in leadership, organizational and team coaching, facilitations, and culture change using agile and Scrum.

Zuzi is a well-known international speaker. She is a founder of the Czech Agile Community, which organizes the annual Agile Prague Conference. She is a CST and CTC with the Scrum Alliance. She received her MBA from Sheffield Hallam University (Great Britain) and her master’s in computer science and computer graphics from the Czech Technical University. She is the author of the book The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay (Addison-Wesley, 2017) and coauthor of Agile Methods Project Management (Computer Press, 2014), written in the Czech language. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Scrum Alliance (USA), was recognized as one the Top 130 Project Management Influencers in 2019, and is included in the Lean In Agile 100 (LIA 100), an initiative to identify women making significant contributions in lean and agile spaces across the globe.

twitter: @zuzuzka

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