Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
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Kathrin Siegmann
Last position:
Requirements Engineer at Governikus GmbH & Co. KG
- Analysis, documentation, and alignment of requirements. Conducting stakeholder analyses, interviews, and workshops for requirements gathering and validation. Carrying out requirements reviews and working closely with business units and development teams.
Techniques & tools: requirements engineering, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, system context modeling, requirements reviews, quality scenarios, Miro, Jira, Confluence
Christian Pestel
Last position:
Project Manager at Kreis Segeberg
- WiNOWiG extensions (digitalization & organization)
- Project management for the WiNOWiG project (regulatory offenses)
- Process optimization and coordination
Alexander Philipp Herbst
Last position:
Software Project Leader for Brake Control Units at ZF Friedrichshafen / ZF Active Safety GmbH
- Project management for software projects in the brake control unit area with a focus on deadlines, costs, and quality.
- Planning, control, and reporting of project progress, risks, dependencies, and work packages.
- Planning and tracking of work packages using PTC Integrity.
- Organizing and moderating customer meetings as well as coordination with internal departments, external suppliers, and third parties.
- Creating and maintaining project documentation according to Automotive SPICE requirements as well as management reporting.
Myrto Papagiannakou
Last position:
UX Lead, Strategist for Property Management Systems at Destination Solutions
- Leading UX for a Property Management System, an all-in-one solution for vacation rental agencies and tourism regions, covering marketing and rental of holiday apartments and houses
- UX audits, conception, and implementation of UX strategy with a focus on regulatory, security, and user-centered requirements
- Advising C-level stakeholders on UX strategy and design best practices
- Planning and conducting research with agencies and property owners
- Design system strategy and definition of UX architecture
Michael Rosens
Last position:
Project Manager at Payone GmbH (Worldline AG)
- Goal/Motivation: PAYONE urgently needs a 360° view of its customers. So far, PAYONE has no overall master data strategy. It is not possible to identify customers across all relevant systems.
The organization is to be enabled to identify customers across all relevant systems. Creating the foundation for master data management at PAYONE
- Challenge: Due to acquisitions, the system landscape is very heterogeneous. The company is very dynamic and burdened with many system harmonization and integration projects, so resource bottlenecks and changes in project priorities are again and again almost impossible to handle.
Due to BaFin findings, the project has a central task and role. The first focus is on migrating all customers from the master-data-leading backend systems with their AML/KYC data to Salesforce. This is intended to resolve one of the largest findings and establish the corresponding ODD/EDD processes.
In addition, customer data must be harmonized in Salesforce. Previous migrations led in some cases to duplicate customer records. In the end, only one customer should be maintained in Salesforce and, with the corresponding information from the backend systems, it should also be possible to recognize which products and in which processing systems the customer uses Payone services.
Project: ONE Customer
Budget: €1.5 million
Team: 10/30 employees (full-time/part-time); 4 vendors/providers
Integration: 8 (subsystems/interfaces)
Applications: Salesforce; SAP S4/HANA; custom developments
Tools: MS Office; Jira, Confluence, SharePoint
Methods: Hands-on; Agile (SAFe); Prince2
Tobias Pitz
Last position:
Interim Product Manager – Digital Office Organization at eurodata AG / ETL
Goal:
- Stabilize and realign a central software platform for digital office processes and restore solid product and delivery management.
Tasks & responsibility:
- Took over product and project management during a critical development phase
- Sharpened product vision, target picture, roadmap, and prioritized product capabilities
- Analyzed user needs, processes, system dependencies, and operational pain points
- Reorganized and prioritized backlog, releases, and work packages based on customer value and delivery risk
- Cross-functional leadership of engineering, product owners, scrum masters, architecture, business units, and operations
- Introduced reliable planning, decision-making, reporting, and escalation structures
- Moderated discovery, refinement, planning, and decision workshops
- Managed scope, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations in a complex product environment
Result:
- Sharpened product vision and roadmap, stabilized delivery structures, and sustainably improved management and decision-making capabilities.
Thomas Kostrewa
Last position:
Agile Coach / Release Train Engineer (SAFe) – Product & Cross-functional Delivery Focus at Autonomous Driving / Connectivity (OEM, confidential)
- Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across organisational units in the Connectivity domain, aligning teams around integrated end-to-end, customer-testable value rather than isolated component delivery.
- Drive a shift from local component optimisation towards shared outcomes and a common delivery goal, increasing focus and enabling significantly faster integrated delivery.
- Coordinate across 15 cross-functional organisations in a highly complex OEM environment; bring Product, Engineering, Programme Management and specialist functions together to resolve dependencies and improve decision-making.
- Coach Product Managers, Product Owners and stakeholders on product responsibility, prioritisation, outcome orientation and aligned backlogs.
- Use Claude through an AWS Bedrock integration to analyse Jira and Confluence content, identify patterns, dependencies and quality gaps, and support structured product and delivery decisions.
- Establish AI-native requirements excellence with LLM-supported quality gates for epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps and task breakdowns; scale adoption through templates and prompt playbooks.
Ralf Roßkopf
Last position:
Program and Campaign Management at PAYBACK GmbH
- Project management in the area of "Campaign, Offer and Performance Management Classic" for PAYBACK partners from the retail, FMCG and financial services sectors
- Campaign planning, development and implementation of offer-specific concepts and measures for the channels newsletter, digital advertising (web and app), stand-alone mailings and the print mailing "PAYBACK points overview"
- Coordination with PAYBACK program partners (including American Express, Netto, EDEKA, Marktkauf & Trinkgut), PAYBACK specialist departments and agencies
- Documentation of tasks and processes as well as onboarding of the future role holder
Marco Toscano
Last position:
Scrum Master at Siemens Energy
- Responsible for introducing agile methods within the Interface & Integration Team (2 Scrum Teams)
- Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
- Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
- Removing impediments
- Increasing sprint performance
Michael Appel
Last position:
Senior Project Management at Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
- Project management of a simplification project to reduce effort for an IT transformation project
- Stakeholder management and preparation of decision papers for top management
- Scoping and PI planning across multiple delivery streams
- Planning requirements for the transformation project
- Creation of partner and customer journeys for structured end-to-end collection of requirements
- Development of suitable tracking methods for project progress
- Coordination with IT service providers and transformation project committees
Bhagyashree Mandlik
Last position:
Salesforce Administrator at gkk Frankfurt GmbH
- Translated complex operational requirements into scalable Salesforce configurations, automation flows and governance policies, ensuring clean and maintainable implementations
- Designed and optimised Flows to eliminate manual steps in key business processes, improving both performance and process compliance
- Managed user roles, permission sets and security settings for a multi-team Salesforce org; ensured data quality and system stability through structured governance practices
- Supported Marketing Cloud integrations and campaign automation workflows, collaborating with business teams on data-driven audience segmentation
- Coordinated release management and deployment activities with development teams, contributing to structured change control processes
Andreas Klös
Last position:
Test / QA / QS at KARDEX Software GmbH KARDEX Remstar
Testing adjustments to customer requests for warehouse / logistics software
Windows 10 / 11 Atlassian Tool Chain Agile testing / Kanban
Philipp Thomaschewski
Last position:
Founder & CEO at FRATCH.IO
AI-native B2B SaaS for freelancer sourcing; DACH market.*
Enterprise partnerships across four industries: structured and closed multi-stakeholder deals with Telefónica (Telco), Emma Matratzen (Retail), Nürnberger Versicherungen and Flatex (Financial Services), Hubert Burda Media and Serviceplan Gruppe (Media).
Revenue and growth: scaled FRATCH from €0 to €3.8M annual GMV, with ~80% of revenue sourced from founder-led direct outreach and partner relationships.
Channel partnerships: sold FRATCH as a SaaS solution to recruiting firms (e.g., YER) — built the partner-enabled motion alongside direct enterprise sales.
Team build: scaled FRATCH from solo founder to a team of 7 across engineering, product design, operations, and supply outreach.
Proprietary network asset: onboarded 15,000+ freelancers as registered users — the proprietary DACH network powering FRATCH's matching.
Built and launched FRATCH GPT (fratch.io/gpt): a production conversational AI agent. Architected the full stack — LLM orchestration, embeddings, re-ranking — with hands-on involvement in technical design and execution.
GTM build: owned the full go-to-market stack — outbound, LinkedIn (organic + paid), content, and sales enablement.
Markus Sterner
Last position:
Lead Developer at Endress+Hauser SICK GmbH+Co. KG
Lead developer of the frontend and backend systems for a web-based pre-sales tool. It is used by sales staff and engineers to configure and calculate complex measurement systems for industrial customers. Core features include a collaboration platform, a product configurator, physical feasibility checks, and a PDF generator.
TypeScript · Node.js · Nest.js · Angular · REST · MongoDB · Playwright
Ciro Manno
Last position:
Enterprise Consultant at Freelancing
Independent consulting engagements supporting technology organizations on governance, system integration, and delivery structure.
- Supported technology organizations in strengthening governance, system integration planning, and delivery structure.
- Reviewed BSS/OSS modernization and data migration programs, validating effort estimates and identifying delivery risks.
- Introduced simple reporting and tracking tools to improve coordination across distributed teams.
- Advised on integration planning and governance, helping teams improve delivery structure and stakeholder alignment.
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Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
2.7 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
91%
Master's degree or higher
56%
Doctorate
4%
Certifications per freelancer
6
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
96%
Based on our profile pool as of 21 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates for Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
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Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 21 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the certification
What CSM means
The Certified ScrumMaster, or CSM, is a Scrum Alliance certification for people who can support Agile teams in a real Scrum setting. It signals practical knowledge of the Scrum framework, team facilitation, and the role of the Scrum Master as a servant leader rather than a project boss.
What it validates
- Scrum events and how to keep them focused
- Removing blockers and improving team flow
- Supporting Product Owners and Developers without taking over their work
- Coaching the team on Scrum values, transparency, and continuous improvement
- Helping stakeholders work with the team in a structured way
A strong CSM holder knows how to turn Scrum from theory into daily work.
Typical profile
CSM holders are often Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, project leads moving into Agile, or team facilitators in product development. Many also come from software, digital product, design, or operations teams where cross-functional delivery matters. The certification is common among freelancers who are brought in to stabilize new Scrum teams, coach managers, or support an Agile transition.
Knowledge areas
- Scrum framework, roles, events, and artifacts
- Team facilitation and conflict handling
- Sprint planning, review, and retrospective practice
- Backlog refinement and value-focused delivery
- Agile mindset, empirical process control, and team health
For companies, this means the freelancer is likely able to work on communication, cadence, and delivery discipline, not just on process slides.
When it helps
CSM certified freelancers are a good fit when a team needs structure without heavy process. They are useful in product teams, IT delivery, platform work, internal transformation, and mixed business-tech projects. In international teams, the CSM also helps because the Scrum language is shared across locations, which makes remote collaboration easier.
What to expect from a holder
A CSM freelancer should be able to run ceremonies, spot team friction, and help the group stay aligned on goals and priorities. They usually work well with developers, product owners, managers, and stakeholders. For a company, the certification is a signal that the person understands Scrum fundamentals and can support team delivery in a practical, hands-on way.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) shows that a professional understands Scrum as a working framework, not just as vocabulary. It points to knowledge of the Scrum Master role, team facilitation, and how to support delivery without micromanaging the team.
The CSM is the well-known Scrum Alliance entry point for people who want to work as Scrum Masters or Agile team facilitators. Compared with more advanced or coaching-focused certifications, it is usually more centered on practical Scrum basics, team events, and day-to-day support.
The Certified ScrumMaster is a strong fit for anyone responsible for helping a Scrum team work smoothly. That includes Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, delivery leads, and consultants who are brought in to improve collaboration and remove friction in product teams.
A freelancer with CSM should be able to guide Scrum events, keep the team focused, and help surface blockers early. They are not there to replace the Product Owner or to command the team, but to create the conditions for better self-organization.
Before earning Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), candidates usually complete Scrum Alliance-approved training and learn the framework in a guided setting. The focus is on understanding Scrum roles, events, artifacts, and the mindset behind servant leadership and continuous improvement.
Yes, the Certified ScrumMaster credential is not meant to be static. Scrum Alliance expects holders to stay active in the Scrum community and keep developing through continuing education and renewal requirements.
The CSM matters most in product development, software delivery, digital transformation, and any cross-functional team that works in short iterations. It is also valuable in organizations that are moving from traditional project management to Agile ways of working.
Yes, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) is often useful in remote setups because Scrum gives teams a shared way to plan, inspect, and adapt. It can help align people across locations, provided the freelancer is comfortable with clear English communication and structured collaboration.
The average hourly rate for freelancers with Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) is 110 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 880 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers with Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 56% hold at least a Master's degree, and 4% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers with Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers with Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) are English (97%), German (93%), and French (19%).
The most common industries among freelancers with Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) are Information Technology (90%), Professional Services (59%), and Banking and Finance (46%).
The most common business areas among freelancers with Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) are Information Technology (93%), Project Management (91%), and Product Development (80%).
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