Zuzana Zuzi Sochova

Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová is an independent Agile coach and trainer and a Certified Scrum Trainer with the Scrum Alliance with more than 15 years’ experience. She has implemented Agile transformation and implementation in many companies and teams around the world. By creating and sustaining Agile leadership, she believes the worlds of work and life can be happier and more successful. She is the founder of the Czech Agile Association and the AgilePrague conference, a member of the Scrum Alliance board of directors, and an author of The Great Scrum Master: #ScrumMasterWay.

Agile at executive team level

Agile can’t stay just at the team level. Agile transformation only creates disturbance and gap between the management and employees. And the more Agile the teams are, the bigger the disconnect is. Managers feel lost, forgotten and start to be frustrated that those self-organizing teams might eventually not need them. Part of the problem is they’ve never been part of any Agile or Scrum team themselves. They’ve seen them working, joining them for Reviews and listening to their stories, but that’s not the same.

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Agile HR

Agile HR or if you want Talent Management as it is called nowadays turn the whole company around. It’s employees centric, delivering value to the whole organization. At a glance, not much had changed. We still need to hire people, take care of people growth, do some evaluations. Just the way we work changed significantly. So let’s go one by one to see the shift.

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Agile Leadership: How to Change World of Work

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Tandem Coaching Academy and Heart Healthy Scrum were honored to host Zuzana Sochova in July 2020 with the topic “Agile Leadership: How to Change World of Work.”

Do we need CEO in Agile Organization?

Searching for an “agile mindset CEO” is frankly a nightmare. Everyone who tried it can confirm that. There are not many CEOs with enough Agile experience yet in the world and those few who has it are not likely looking for a job as they are usually quite happy in their current organization. So, no matter which executive search firm you choose, or what you write to the position description, the search firms are no real help here.

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What is Agile Leadership

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