Zuzana Šochová

Zuzana Šochová is an independent Agile coach and trainer and a Certified Scrum Trainer with more than fifteen 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 USA. 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, healthcare, automotive, mobile, and high-tech software companies. She has worked in various positions, starting as software developer for life and mission-critical systems, and continuing as a Scrum Master and director of engineering. She has been working as an independent Agile coach and trainer since 2010, specializing in 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 received her MBA from Sheffield Hallam University (UK), and her master’s from Czech Technical University. She coauthored Agile Methods Project Management, written in the Czech language.