I help companies and individuals to be more successful.
Teaching teams and their managers how to be more efficient, how to provide better quality, and how to communicate and organize teams so that people have fun, they are motivated and have high commitment.
I help them to find out how to handle customer relationship so that customer satisfaction is much higher than it used to be.
Agile is not only a new methodology, it's a culture which is hard to implement if you haven't experienced it yourself. I had implemented it many times already, in many different companies, so I can help you to implement it in your environment, the way you need it.
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Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová is an independent Agile coach and trainer and a Certified Scrum Trainer with more than twenty years of experience in the IT industry. She started with Agile and Scrum back in 2005, when she was implementing Agile methods in a large USA corporation. From that time, she has been credited with Agile transformation and implementation for many companies and teams around the world.
As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with Scrum Alliance, Zuzi has trained thousands of ScrumMasters and Product Owners. By creating and sustaining Agile leadership, Zuzi believes the worlds of work and life can be made happier and more successful.
She is an author of The Great Scrum Master: #ScrumMasterWay book (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) and The Agile Leader (Addison-Wesley, 2020) books, and inventor of the #ScrumMasterWay concept.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of Scrum Alliance.
She is a founder of the Agile Association (Agilni Asociace, agilniasociace.cz) Czech Republic, organizing the Agile Czech community and annual Agile Prague Conference (agileprague.com). She is a regular speaker at international conferences.
Agile transformation, consultancy, agile coaching, trainings and workshops, open and company trainings focused on Agile methods, Kanban and Scrum process in software companies, banks, insurance companies, plants, telecommunications, marketing agencies, ...
“At our company, Kros, we have kept an eye on agile methods and especially Scrum for a long time, but nobody really believed that it could actually work. How can we just let people choose what they want to do and how much they want to do! How are we going to plan? (To tell the truth our planning has been very unreliable up till now.) How are we going to know if people are working enough?
In the end we told ourselves we would give it a try, and after an initial partial success, we had all the developing teams involved in the development in accordance with Scrum. Zuzka helped us at our regular meetings by giving feedback and suggestions for further improvements of our work. Today, after nearly a year of operation, there is still room for improvement, but we know for sure that we managed to solve three major problems that we had had - the quality of products delivered to customers, scheduling and estimating the range of tasks that can be accomplished in a given period, and last but not least, we have supported our teams, for which the scrum was a new incentive to improve their work, the work conditions, mutual relations and gave them satisfaction from success.”
Zuzana managed the Czech portion of a large software development project to convert Medtronic implantable cardiac device applications to run under Windows XPe. Her team worked very closely with a similar team of Medtronic engineers based in Minnesota, USA for almost three years . I believe all would agree that it could not have been successful without the outstanding contribution of the team. Zuzana's coordination, planning, and communication skills were key to the success of her team.
An essential component of this cooperative effort was the use of Agile principles to enable the two teams - seven time zones apart - to work together effectively.
In the beginning of February, I’m running CSM and CSPO trainings in English. Both trainings will be delivered online (Zoom) and in English.
Register for CSM - Certified ScrumMaster on Feb 304, 2025 and CSPO - Certified Scrum Product Owner on Feb 5-6, 2025.
read moreJoin me on confirmed A-CSM Advanced Certified ScrumMaster training on November 19-20, 2024 in English. Training will be delivere online (Zoom)
Register here, there's still discounted price available. Looking forward.
read moreJoin me on the upcoming CSP-PO Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner training on October 29-30, 2024. The training is delivered online and will be in English.
Register here. Looking forward.
read moreDate: 17-18 September 2025
Duration: 2 days
Early bird price: 24 000 CZK plus VAT (21%) valid until 30 days before the start of the training
Regular price: 29 000 CZK plus VAT (21%) otherwise
Place: Prague, Czech Republic
Language: English
Training is delivered by John Barratt accredited ICAgile trainer.
read moreDate: 17-18 September 2025
Duration: 2 days
Early bird price: 1 095 EUR plus VAT (21%) valid until 30 days before the start of the training
Regular price: 1 295 EUR plus VAT (21%) otherwise
Place: Prague, Czech Republic
Language: English
Training is delivered by Jurgen De Smet accredited LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) trainer.
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Are you working in a Scrum environment and are you interested in how to introduce Scrum to multiple teams? Do you want to know more about organizational change, lean, system thinking, and advanced practices?
Join Jurgen De Smet, certified LeSS trainer, for his LeSS - Certified Large-Scale Scrum Practitioner training on 16-18 October 2024 in Prague. In this 3 days class, you will learn a lot about Scrum, scaling, lean thinking, systems thinking, product ownership, Huge Scrum, and many more. Training is in English, in person, and you can register here.
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