"The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay fills an important gap in providing practical advice and tools for ScrumMasters who wish to improve their craft. The book is full of powerful tips sure to help any ScrumMaster."
— Mike Cohn, author of 'Succeeding with Agile', Certified Scrum Trainer®
"The key for any educational guide is accessibility and leaving the reader with actionable techniques they can immediately put into practice. Zuzi’s The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay is both and is a fantastic reference for those wanting to improve their Scrum Master skills."
—Mark C. Layton, author of 'Agile Project Management For Dummies' and 'Scrum For Dummies', Certified Scrum Trainer®
"There is a short and a long answer, to why I believe The Great ScrumMaster is a great book. Let me start with the short one: It provides great answers to a lot of questions my students ask me in Certified ScrumMaster trainings and is an excellent source for reflection once they start their journey as ScrumMasters. Now to the long answer: The ScrumMaster role is covered very briefly in the ScrumGuide... beyond his responsibility to coach the Development Team, the Product Owner, and the organization it does not say much—especially about how these things can/should be done. Many books have tried to fill this hole—two of them I like a lot, one is The Great ScrumMaster. Zuzi not only covers tons of topics directly linked to the ScrumMaster role, but goes beyond that e.g. by including a chapter on the Responsibility Process or Impact Mapping. In each chapter she communicates very clearly and to the point and helps the reader to by using incredible visuals—which are an inspiration by themselves. In addition I like the 'Remember' and 'Steps towards the next stage' sections at the end of each topic. As a reader it helps me to reflect on the key message or identify an action item for myself. All in all a great book, which I can highly recommend to everyone who is on the journey to become a great ScrumMaster. Only downside...it's not available in German, but Zuzi and I will work on this ;-)"
—Sohrab Salimi, Certified Scrum Trainer
"Zuzi’s preface describes briefly her journey to become a great Scrum Master. Hers is a story about humility and studious persistence; the journey is unique and difficult for us all. I could relate!"
—David Sabine, Agile Business Consultant, Berteig
"Recommended book."
—Ben Linders, co-author of 'Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives—A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises'
"Even if you’re not a ScrumMaster yourself, you can still benefit by reading this book. Regardless of our role, we all need leadership skills, and we all need to build good relationships within and outside of our software delivery teams. The techniques and models in this book will help you contribute more to your team, and help your team add more value to your company."
—Lisa Crispin, co-author of 'Agile Testing and 'More Agile Testing'
(Deep book review by Lisa Crispin was published in AgileVox magazine, Issue 2, Fall 2016.)
"The Great ScrumMaster is an essential book for anyone in a ScrumMaster role, being it a novice seeking advice or a seasoned pro just wanting to get a new way of looking at things and refresh things a little. Written in plain, easy-to-understand language, with many tips that you can try right away, it is definitely one of a few books any ScrumMaster should have as a 'pocket reference guide'.
—Tomas Kejzlar, Agile Delivery Coach, MSD IT Global Innovation Center
"Zuzi Sochova has written a useful, practical and concise set of tips for Agile professionals. If you want to be a Great ScrumMaster, you should read this book."
—Fred Williams, founder of Williams Technical and the Open Learning Center
"I feel lucky that i got a chance to read a wonderful book The Great ScrumMaster authored by Zuzi Sochova. I had my own expectations, but I must accept that it exceeds those by a wide margin. I was not contemplating to finish the book in one or two days, but as I started to turn the pages, it acted like a magnet, as the book content is designed in small chunks of read. This book has forced me to think not only about ScrumMasters, but also for overall scrum framework from different perspective. The contents are so nicely organised that you will learn everything in a flow.The structures and templates allow you to immerse yourself and follow the flow of learning. I’ll also commend Zuzi for breaking the traditional way of writing a book and making it an attractive read with small themed colourful figures.”
—Jaya Shrivastava, founder of Agile++ Engineering
"Zuzana's book The Great ScrumMaster is a great read! For today's Agile coaches, ScrumMasters and Change Agents to get started in their journey, the book contains real time examples, techniques and tools which will help them get on to the path to bring about change in the world of work. The book covers wide number of topics explaining what a ScrumMaster role entails. It has lots of examples, practices, exercises and colourful illustrations that help the readers to connect with instantly!"
—Apeksha Patel, founder & MD at Chanakyaism, AKT, Agile Coach
"Easy to read, easy to understand :) Good job, Zuzi!"
—Kuba R., reader
"Thank you, Zuzi! I've just read the book and it really was on time for me. It helped me to structure and define my goals at the new company where I have just started working."
—Alienista, reader
"Great book for great ScrumMasters The Great ScrumMaster is great choice for all ScrumMasters who want to move to the next level. After this book I finally understand what is the real ScrumMaster goal and how to achieve it. It gave me great tips I could experiment with in my day to day job. Even the little I tried made a huge difference to our team and organization already. It’s a must have book for every ScrumMaster."
—Bozena, Amazon Reviewer
"The Scrum book you must have! The book is super valuable, great drawings, examples, and full of powerful tips to help any ScrumMaster. It fills an important gap in providing practical advice and tools for ScrumMasters who wish to improve their craft. I'd recommend it for certain."
—Jan Trdlicka, Amazon Reviewer