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Certified ScrumMasters drive agile transformation, facilitate daily standups, and resolve development roadblocks. Find vetted freelance Scrum Alliance professionals in Germany through our precise, fast AI matching.
About the certification
The Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster in Germany
The Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster, often abbreviated as CSM, is a globally recognized credential that validates an individuals understanding of the Scrum framework and agile values. In Germany, where industries are transitioning from hierarchical management to agile delivery, these professionals play a critical role in structuring development cycles. They act as servant leaders who help engineering and product teams collaborate effectively, eliminate roadblocks, and deliver high-quality increments.
Key competences validated by the credential
- Facilitating Scrum events including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
- Coaching cross-functional teams in self-organization and empirical process control
- Helping product owners manage the product backlog and define clear sprint goals
- Removing organizational and technical impediments that slow down development progress
- Assisting organizations in adopting Scrum across department boundaries
When to engage a certified agile facilitator
Companies in Germany often search for a qualified Scrum facilitator when undertaking complex digital transformation initiatives. Whether migrating legacy software architectures or building new digital business models, a certified professional ensures the team remains focused on iterative progress. They are especially valuable when teams struggle with scope creep, communication silos, or transitioning from traditional project management models to iterative agile practices.
Collaborative expectations for German projects
When hiring an agile professional in Germany, clear communication and cultural alignment are vital. Certified practitioners are skilled at managing both on-site coordination in major business hubs and hybrid setups with remote developers. They bridge communication gaps, ensure standard terminology is used across the organization, and adapt agile frameworks to suit the structured working style common in German business environments.
Meet FRATCH Certified ScrumMasters
Kathrin Siegmann
Requirements Engineer | Business Analyst | Agile Coach
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
Maciej Sawicki
Product Owner
Last position:
Product Owner at Bundesagentur für Arbeit
- As part of the project, the further development of the identity management system was driven forward. This included a comprehensive refactoring of the interfaces to the connected target systems. In addition, several special systems were successfully connected to the IAM to ensure end-to-end identity and authorization management.
- Technical design and solution proposals for IAM system development
- Requirements analysis and requirements management (IREB, BABOK)
- Alignment of the strategy with the future target architecture (TOGAF)
- Prototyping of solutions
- Documentation of requirements (Innovator)
- Analysis and documentation of requirements and creation of process models (UML, BPMN, ArchiMate)
- Modeling of requirements and system functionalities (OOA/OOD, UML)
- Further development of interfaces (SOAP, REST)
- Carrying out architecture reviews
Christian Hildebrandt
Senior Business Consultant, Crisis and Turnaround Manager Marketing and Technology
Last position:
Senior Business Consultant CTV Sales - Livestreaming at Under NDA
- Strategic consulting for the implementation of a CTV sales concept in the livestreaming area - sports
- Consulting and support in selecting sales partners
- Strategic consulting and screening of ad technologies, their integration, and delivery of an integrated business workflow
- Stakeholder management and management support
- Pricing, cost and benefit analyses
- Sub-project leadership for external and internal stakeholders and teams
Christian Pestel
Project Manager
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
Senior IT and Software Project Manager | Program Manager
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.
Michael Rosens
Project Manager
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
Ralf Roßkopf
Project and Interim Manager Marketing | CRM | CX
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
Scrum Master
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
Marc Hammerschmidt
Senior Product Manager / Product Lead
Last position:
Own AI product project & AI training at Self-employed
- Built and validated SupportPiloten, an AI-powered content operations service; won first paying pilot customers
- Tested agentic workflows with Claude Code and Codex for analysis, research, documentation, and prototyping
- Further developed own AI product; training: AI governance, AI compliance, and the EU AI Act (ongoing)
Michael Appel
Independent Business Consultant
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
Ciro Manno
Enterprise Consultant
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.
Christian Bellerose
Senior Program Manager (Freelance)
Last position:
Senior Program Manager (Freelance) at Bellerose Consulting
- Advise organizations on integrating AI into project and program management practices, delivering measurable productivity improvements
- Designed and implemented an AI agent to improve project communication, transparency, and reporting quality
Mario Pucko
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030 at ALDB GmbH
- Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
- Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
- Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
- Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
- Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
- Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
- Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
- Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
- Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control
Vadim Bünger
E-Commerce Consultant & Product Owner
Last position:
Dozent Applied AI at Digital Institut des Mittelstands GmbH
- Instructor for applied AI in the courses "AI Implementation Architect" and "AI Business Innovator"
- Running remote training sessions to qualify participants as "AI Implementation Architect" and "AI Business Innovator"
- Building n8n-based automations for the Digital Institut des Mittelstands
Benjamin Faas
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach
Last position:
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach at Freelance
Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.
Last projects:
Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.
Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.
Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.
Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.
Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:
Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.
Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.
Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.
Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.
Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:
Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.
Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.
Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.
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Certified ScrumMasters statistics
Typical experience
21 years
Average project duration
2.9 years
Certifications per freelancer
6
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
89%
Master's degree or higher
53%
Doctorate
6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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A professional holding the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) qualification serves as a servant leader to help project teams adopt and execute the Scrum framework. They facilitate daily meetings, assist the product owner in backlog refinement, and actively remove obstacles that prevent the team from meeting their goals. Their primary focus is on maximizing team efficiency and ensuring continuous improvement.
While both credentials focus on Scrum principles, the CSM is issued by the Scrum Alliance and traditionally requires attending a live, interactive course led by a certified trainer. The Professional Scrum Master, or PSM, is issued by Scrum.org and places a stronger focus on self-study and a highly rigorous assessment. Both are widely respected in Germany, but Scrum Alliance practitioners often bring a strong focus on team facilitation and collaborative learning.
Hiring a certified professional ensures that your project lead has a verified understanding of agile values and standard terminology. In Germany, where structured project execution is highly valued, a Certified ScrumMaster provides a predictable framework that minimizes friction during organizational transitions. This formal validation reduces the risk of process deviation and ensures your team follows industry best practices.
A Certified ScrumMaster does not need to be a software developer or have a technical engineering background. Their expertise lies in process facilitation, conflict resolution, and team dynamics rather than writing code. However, having a basic understanding of technical workflows helps them communicate more effectively with development teams in Germany.
To maintain the active status of the CSM designation, holders must complete Scrum Education Units, which reflect their ongoing learning and involvement in the agile community. They must also submit a renewal application to the Scrum Alliance periodically to prove they remain up to date with the latest agile practices. This requirement ensures that the professional you hire is committed to continuous professional development.
The necessity of German language skills depends entirely on the organization and its team setup. Many technology startups and multinational corporations in Germany operate fully in English, where an international Certified ScrumMaster can succeed without local language fluency. However, for traditional mid-sized enterprises or public sector projects, fluent German is often essential to facilitate communication across all internal departments.
According to the official guidelines, the roles of CSM and Product Owner should not be held by the same person. Combining these roles creates a conflict of interest, as the Scrum Master focuses on process health and team capacity while the Product Owner focuses on product scope and business value. Keeping these roles separate ensures a healthy balance of power and clearer project focus.
While the framework originated in software development, the CSM is now highly sought after across various German sectors including automotive, banking, and logistics. Any industry dealing with rapid market changes, complex product requirements, or digital transformation benefits from the structured adaptability that these agile specialists bring to a project.
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