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About the certification
What ICP-ACC means
ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching, often called ICP-ACC, is a coaching-focused agile credential from ICAgile. It signals that a professional can coach people and teams through real delivery challenges, not just explain agile theory. Companies look for it when they need support with collaboration, self-management, and change.
Core coaching skills
An ICP-ACC holder is expected to work with people, not process alone.
- Coaching conversations with teams and leaders
- Active listening, powerful questions, and reflection
- Facilitating learning instead of prescribing answers
- Handling conflict, resistance, and team tension
- Supporting growth in agile mindsets and behaviors
What the learning covers
The certificate focuses on the practical side of agile coaching. That includes coaching stance, trust building, team development, facilitation of workshops and retrospectives, and the difference between mentoring, training, and coaching. It also touches on how coaches work in complex environments where change is gradual and people need room to learn.
Who usually holds it
People who earn ICP-ACC are often agile coaches, Scrum Masters, transformation leads, internal coaches, or consultants moving into coaching-heavy assignments. In Germany, it is especially relevant where teams work across functions, combine local and remote collaboration, or need support in English-speaking environments. The certification helps employers spot a freelancer who can guide people through change with calm structure and clear communication.
When it matters most
This certification is useful in projects where agile adoption is still maturing, teams are stuck in delivery friction, or leaders need support to coach instead of control. It fits product, software, and transformation work, but also any setting where team behavior matters as much as tools and ceremonies. For companies, ICP-ACC suggests the freelancer can improve team dynamics, not only run meetings.
What companies should expect
A freelancer with the ICP-ACC usually brings a coaching-first approach, strong facilitation habits, and enough agile context to work with product and delivery teams. The credential does not promise a fixed playbook. It points to someone who can adapt to the team, ask the right questions, and help people find workable ways forward.
Meet FRATCH ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
Bastian Vasterling
Managing Director / Partner
Last position:
Managing Director / Partner at SMATRA Trading Group & Consultancy
- Establishing and leading the SMATRA Trading Group & Consultancy with a focus on market entry and development projects between Europe and Asia-Pacific.
- Consulting and trading in premium consumer goods (coffee & tea), including building supply chains, brand partnerships, and sales channels (e.g. Hong Kong).
- Developing an expert network for market analysis, market entry, digital transformation, and sustainable business models.
- Supporting and coaching founders and medium-sized companies in building scalable, self-managed teams beyond traditional hierarchy structures.
Doaa Abdelghafar
Technical Project/Program manager, Scrum Master& Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer
Last position:
Technical Program Manager/Agile Coach at Visa
- Drove two cross-functional engineering teams within the SAFe framework to deliver backend and integration solutions for Visa’s Terminal Management and Cybersource Onboarding platforms
- Served as Program Coach for ten teams within the Platform Services organization, advancing Agile maturity, delivery alignment, and a culture of continuous improvement
- Orchestrated Agile ceremonies including Product Manager syncs, metrics reviews, inspect-and-adapt sessions, system demos, and leadership workshops to strengthen transparency, collaboration, and delivery performance
- Championed the rollout of the Re-imagine Work@Visa scaled delivery framework within the Agile Transformation Team, improving collaboration and delivery predictability
- Increased release frequency 18× per quarter by synchronizing distributed teams and developing a comprehensive release guide
- Partnered with the Release Manager to standardize deployments across Visa Data Center, AWS, and Mobile platforms
- Led teams to close all security findings and embed remediation into BAU, achieving zero open issues by mid-2024
- Directed the Security Findings Program across the portfolio, ensuring visibility, accountability, and progress tracking
- Supported the roll out of the OKR framework and led quarterly reviews to align execution with business goals
- Strengthened communication across distributed teams, removed blockers, and advocated for continuous improvement and automation
- Delivered on demand workshops for teams with raising maturity and adoption of best practices
- Co-founded a Center of Excellence and Agile Community of Practice to promote continuous learning and alignment
- Partnered with SRE and InfoSec teams on multi-region rollout and security initiatives to enhance reliability and compliance
Sebastian Pauer
Scrum Master & Agile Coach
Last position:
Scrum Master & Agile Coach at HUK-Coburg
Goal: Coach a new agile team to implement and deliver the MVP of an AI-powered digital insurance service.
- Kicked off and coached a new cross-functional agile team as Scrum Master.
- Introduced a new Product Owner to the role with coaching, close collaboration and support with daily operations and backlog management in Jira.
- Facilitated the ideation, design and backlog creation process for the MVP, applying the appropriate tools and techniques (user journey mapping, impact mapping, story mapping, AI prototyping).
- Managed dependencies and impediments across multiple teams, resolving challenges rising from the use of both agile frameworks and traditional project management methodologies.
- Facilitated and supported planning and decision-making activities regarding the MVP delivery (roadmap creation, release planning, test management, translation of user feedback into product decisions)
- Continuously improved processes across multiple agile teams, closely collaborating with other Scrum Masters and cross-team roles (leads, architect, test manager).
- Designed and facilitated in-person and remote workshops as needed across multiple teams (agile practices, problem solving, process improvement, AI powered product development).
Frank Cappel
Agile Team Coach & SAFe RTE Consultant
Last position:
Agile and classic change transformation manager at Freelance Interim Manager | Transformation, Change & Procurement Consultant
- Industries: Energy, Telecommunications, Manufacturing
- Transformation & Change: Supported complex IT and digital transformation programs as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Change Manager, and RTE Consultant at Siemens Energy (global SAFe rollout), E.ON (sales technology platform), Schneider Electric (S/4HANA transformation DACH), and Vodafone (Operational Excellence)
- Agile Roles: Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Owner, Business Analyst, RTE Consultant in cross-functional and scaled teams (SAFe, Scrum, Spotify model)
- Procurement Excellence: Strategic procurement consulting with a focus on cost optimization, supplier management, digitalization, and organizational development, including building supplier scorecard models, AI-supported sourcing approaches, and process automation in procurement
- Managed professional leadership of interdisciplinary project teams of up to 12 people in national and international settings
- Successfully launched multiple global ARTs at Siemens Energy with improved coordination across locations
- Increased change acceptance and established communication structures in the S/4HANA program at Schneider Electric
- Introduced agile methods, OKR frameworks, and KPI dashboards at E.ON, increasing velocity and transparency
- Reduced purchasing costs through strategic sourcing and supplier optimization
- Implemented process innovations in close cooperation with IT and business units
Sebastian Seek
Consultant for Secure Coding & Process Setup in line with DORA
Last position:
Consultant for Secure Coding & Process Setup in line with DORA at SEMTOS GmbH
Analysis of the regulatory requirements from the DORA regulation
Structured derivation of the necessary measures for development & operations
Setup of an organization-wide Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
Creation of policies, documentation, and governance processes
Alignment with business, IT, compliance, and governance stakeholders
Support in tool selection (including static code analysis, vulnerability management)
Setup of a standardized, traceable process for secure software development in line with DORA requirements. The focus was on requirements analysis, policy creation, stakeholder alignment, and structured process design for two independent financial institutions.
Methods & tools: regulations (DORA), requirements management, process design, Confluence, Jira, SharePoint, MS Office
Silvia Forstner
Agile PM
Last position:
Agile PM at Puma SE
- Manage and oversee various software development projects between product management and agile dev teams of external service providers
- Communicate with all stakeholders
- Promote transparency and focus on project topics
- Facilitate alignments between business units and external partners
- Support product managers and product owners in preparing and managing requirements in workshops and tools
- Use short feedback loops to optimize agile collaboration
- Support hybrid and agile collaboration
Levent Önder
Senior Expert Transformation & Change Management
Last position:
Senior Expert Transformation & Change Management at STC Services (Freelancer in cooperation)
- Developed an IT governance and oversight framework aligned with DORA requirements
- Coordinated and trained external service providers
- Optimized financial processes and performance
Marleen Kertscher
Atlassian Specialist E2E Processes
Last position:
Atlassian Specialist E2E Processes at Energy, Water and Environment
- Atlassian & Business expert
- Lead of 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support, process mapping, process optimization, introduction of a project standard (global user management and documentation) and development of a collaboration platform to optimize teamwork, data management, reporting, ERP transformation
- The client is a sustainability-focused chemical park and offers its employees a full service for the Atlassian product suite. In addition, the adoption of the ERP software by employees, the improvement of data quality and internal exchange or collaboration should be promoted by sharing knowledge and best practices
- Process and standards development
- Project configuration and creation of technical concepts
- Workshops with employees
- Development of scalable solutions and processes and their optimization/automation
- Coordination with department process owners and management
- Process mapping and further development
- Data migration and data mining
- Lead as Scrum Master
- Dashboard for project management with project overview / development of reporting structures
Gro Geert-Jørgensen
Senior Executive, Agile & Process
Last position:
Senior Executive, Agile & Process at apinity GmbH
- Spearheaded the design and execution of enterprise Agile frameworks, enhancing delivery alignment across leadership and operational teams, resulting in a 20% increase in efficiency.
- Mentored senior executives and managers on leveraging OKRs for strategic goal-setting, strengthening alignment with organizational objectives.
- Established a growth framework for Product Engineering leadership, leading to a 15% improvement in retention and professional development outcomes.
Matthias Bullmahn
Interim Change Manager
Last position:
Interim Change Manager at Automotive manufacturer (OEM)
- Agile transformation of the entire executive board division for battery development using SAFe.
- Set up 5 Agile Release Trains and an agile portfolio.
- Prepared the shift from a functional to a process-based organization.
- Managed a scope of 400+ people across Germany, Europe and China.
- Applied tailored SAFe methods.
- Stakeholder management as well as consulting, training and coaching of leadership (product management, release train engineers, system architects).
- Built a portfolio with budgets from around €150 million up to over €1 billion.
- Trained junior colleagues at Big4 consulting firms.
- Introduced PI plannings, quality metrics and team training.
Steffen Raebricht
Consultant, Coach, Trainer
Last position:
Consultant, Coach, Trainer at Endless Digital Media GmbH
- CEO coaching on role clarity, delegation, and team accountability within the company
- Implementing effective communication patterns across the organization
- Guiding the formation of new agile teams
- Agile leadership training
- Workshops on team communication
- Role-specific workshops
- Driving cultural change through effective communication patterns
- Enabling self-managing teams
- Reducing the CEO's workload
- Establishing a learning organization with regular improvement cycles through retrospectives and self-organized mini-workshops
- Increased leadership effectiveness
- More efficient customer communication
Anand Rahul
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Last position:
Freelancer Scrum Master, Mentor and Strategist at Confidential Fintec Startup
- Provided coaching and support to Scrum teams to adopt and implement agile practices effectively
- Analyzed business requirements and identified IT solutions to support business goals
- Evaluated existing IT systems and processes to identify optimization opportunities
- Managed stakeholder relationships and coaching
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and ensured adherence to Scrum principles and practices
- Identified and implemented lean startup process optimizations to improve efficiency and effectiveness of development and business processes
- Developed and monitored daily business strategies to ensure development goals were met
- Developed and implemented OKR strategies to align team goals with company objectives
- Tools/Methodology: Jira, Confluence, Miro, PowerBI, team building & mentoring, conflict resolution, impediment resolution
André Ullmann
RTE / Agile Coach / Full SAFe Consultant
Last position:
RTE / Agile Coach / Full SAFe Consultant at Siemens Energy
- RTE/Agile Coach for the SAFe 6 (Scaled Agile Framework) rollout
- Building and establishing a LACE (Lean-Agile Center of Excellence) for several ARTs
- Using the tools: Azure DevOps with SCALE, Loop, MS Whiteboard
- Building the ART with 7 teams
- Training Product Owners, e.g. through SAFe POPM training and LearnSnacks
- Running the initial PI Planning as a Kickoff Planning Event
- Introducing a demand process
Sandy Glueckstein
Change Manager SAP S/4HANA
Last position:
Change Manager SAP S/4HANA at Natuvion
- Creation and implementation of a holistic change management strategy for smooth SAP S/4HANA implementation for public customers.
- Presentation of the change management strategy in workshops with various stakeholders, including end customers, executives, department heads and end users, in order to create a common understanding of the changes.
- Creation of detailed change narrative & concept including iterations with key stakeholders to in order to accompany the various phases of the SAP S/4HANA implementation.
- Project Management and implementation of training programs.
Peter Wellbrock
Technical Product Owner
Last position:
Technical Product Owner at Mercedes-Benz Tech Motion
- Developed a technical concept for virtual testing and variant management.
- Aligned with technical teams to implement innovative test solutions.
- Facilitated workshops for requirements definition and process optimization.
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ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) statistics
Typical experience
20 years
Average project duration
2.3 years
Certifications per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Automotive
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
94%
Master's degree or higher
56%
Doctorate
6%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
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Frequently Asked Questions
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ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) validates practical agile coaching skill. It shows that a professional can support teams, leaders, and change efforts through coaching conversations, facilitation, and team development. For companies, it is a sign that the freelancer can work on behavior and collaboration, not just process.
The ICP-ACC is broader and more coaching-focused than a Scrum certification. A Scrum credential usually centers on the Scrum framework and role knowledge, while ICP-ACC focuses on how to coach people through change, conflict, and learning. If you need someone to improve team dynamics and leadership behavior, this certification is often the better signal.
It is a strong fit for agile coaches, Scrum Masters who spend much of their time coaching, transformation consultants, and internal change agents. Professionals who want to move from running agile events to enabling better team behavior often pursue ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC). It also suits experienced practitioners who already know agile basics and want deeper coaching skills.
An ICP-ACC freelancer often works with teams that need better collaboration, clearer ownership, or stronger leadership support. Typical work includes coaching sessions, retrospectives, leadership sparring, conflict support, and workshop facilitation. The certification is especially relevant when a team knows the process but still struggles with the human side of delivery.
Most candidates benefit from real agile experience before taking the course. The certification is designed for people who already understand team settings and want to deepen their coaching practice through feedback, reflection, and guided exercises. A background in facilitation, mentoring, or change work is helpful, but the key requirement is the ability to work with people in complex situations.
ICAgile credentials sit within a broader learning path rather than a simple exam-and-forget model. For ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), professionals should expect to keep learning as their practice develops and to follow ICAgile’s current guidance if they move into other ICAgile learning tracks. Companies should view it as proof of current coaching education, not a guarantee of lifelong skill without further practice.
It is most useful in German organizations that are changing how teams work, especially where product delivery, cross-functional collaboration, or leadership coaching is part of the assignment. ICP-ACC also fits remote or hybrid setups where communication and trust need extra care. Many companies value it when they want a freelancer who can coach in a clear, professional way in English and, where needed, in German.
When you see ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) on a profile, read it as a sign of coaching depth in an agile context. It does not mean the person is only a trainer or only a process expert. It usually means they can help teams learn, reflect, and improve how they work together.
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