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PSM I signals practical Scrum knowledge, servant leadership, Sprint facilitation, and a clear grasp of the Scrum framework. Find vetted freelancers in Austria who can support agile teams, product delivery, and coaching with fast, precise matching.
About the certification
What PSM I means
Professional Scrum Master I, often called PSM I, is Scrum.org’s entry certification for Scrum Masters. It shows that the holder understands the Scrum framework, the Scrum Master role, and how to support a team without turning Scrum into a set of rigid ceremonies.
What it validates
- Servant leadership in a Scrum team
- Coaching teams to inspect and adapt
- Facilitating events without losing the purpose of each one
- Removing obstacles by working with the wider organization
- Understanding transparency, empiricism, and self-management
A freelancer with PSM I should be able to explain Scrum in plain language and apply it in real project settings, not just repeat the rules.
Typical profiles
PSM I is common among Scrum Masters, agile coaches, project leads moving into agile delivery, and consultants who support product teams. In Austria, companies often look for this certification when they need someone to help mixed teams align across product, development, and business functions.
Core knowledge areas
- The Scrum framework and its accountabilities
- Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
- Backlog refinement and working with the Product Owner
- Coaching the team and the organization toward better Scrum adoption
- Handling impediments, conflict, and weak collaboration patterns
This certification is especially relevant when a team is new to Scrum, delivery is inconsistent, or the organization needs help moving from theory to real agility.
What companies get
Hiring a Professional Scrum Master I freelancer gives you someone who can support team flow, protect focus, and improve how work is planned and reviewed. The best PSM I professionals do not manage people in a traditional sense. They help teams become clearer, more predictable, and more accountable.
Where it matters
PSM I is useful in software delivery, digital transformation, product development, and cross-functional change work. It also matters when remote collaboration is part of the setup, because the Scrum Master has to keep communication crisp and the team aligned even when people are not in the same room. For Austrian companies, that often means balancing local working habits with English-speaking delivery teams.
Meet FRATCH Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Marko Agrez
Agile Transformation Coach | Program Lead | Scaling Engineering Organizations
Last position:
Program Lead | Agile Transformation Coach at EnBW
- Steering and supporting the organization in introducing Scrum and a quarterly roadmap and portfolio planning approach at program level inspired by the SAFe framework.
- Servant leadership for Scrum teams and managers to achieve quarterly goals and measurably increase value delivery for internal and external customers.
- Design and expansion of efficient communication and collaboration structures between multiple development teams and key stakeholders across the organization.
- Facilitation and professional moderation of cross-functional workshops and management meetings to align on shared goals.
- Coaching managers, Product Owners, and development teams on agile values, role understanding, and scaled ways of working (Scrum, SAFe, Business Agility).
- Removal of structural blockers at team and organizational level through targeted impediment management and escalation processes.
- Enabling teams to become more self-organized, accountable, and end-to-end responsible along the value streams.
- Individual coaching of key people (Product Owners, Chapter Leads, Scrum Masters) to strengthen their effectiveness in the transformation program.
- Organization-wide identification, planning, and implementation of process, structure, and tool improvements to sustainably increase efficiency, throughput, and value creation.
- Close support for Product Owners in stakeholder management, prioritization by business value, product strategy, roadmap planning, and effective collaboration with development teams.
- Introduction, governance, and scaling of Azure DevOps as the central project and product management tool, including coaching the organization in usage, reporting, and alignment at all levels.
Achievements:
- Clear increase in the visibility, transparency, and perceived value delivery of the development teams within the overall organization.
- Noticeable improvement in communication between development, business, and other stakeholders.
- Optimization of work processes, workflows, and backlog structures, which reduced lead times, sharpened priorities, and sustainably increased team effectiveness.
Stavros Vougioukas
Project & Change Management Lead
Last position:
Transformation & Change Lead (Freelance) at Sanofi
- Led the global transformation of Talent Operations by inhousing recruitment technologies, processes, and teams, reducing over 20 external partners to 2, defining the strategy to hire hundreds of internal talent specialists, and redesigning organisational structures and processes worldwide.
- Drove gap analyses and impact assessments and led the global rollout of Beamery, HireVue, and Paradox, covering solution design, pilot markets, global deployment, and hypercare, ensuring smooth market transitions and standardised operations.
- Developed and maintained detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, RAID logs, and governance routines, leveraging SharePoint as the central platform for programme documentation, rollout artefacts, approvals, and decision tracking.
- Coordinated cross-functional stakeholders including HR, IT, regional teams, and external vendors, using SharePoint-based documentation and governance frameworks to align requirements, manage dependencies, and resolve delivery issues.
- Conducted gap analyses and impact assessments across Paradox, Beamery, and Workday to ensure pilot readiness and global launch success, with outputs captured and governed through SharePoint.
- Built and executed comprehensive change management plans using ADKAR methodology, covering stakeholder mapping, communications, training, and adoption activities, supported by SharePoint-hosted enablement materials and rollout documentation.
- Broke down silos across regions and functions to drive adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.
- Tracked adoption metrics and user feedback post-deployment, driving continuous improvement in user experience and operational performance.
Kelly Geyer
Change Manager
Last position:
Chief Adaptability Officer (Interim or Freelance) at Self-employed
Building the practice that treats adaptive capability as a strategic asset, not a consulting engagement. Working with C-suite leaders at European and global organizations to build the internal capability to evolve continuously – faster, with less dependency on outside help.
- Delivering the Adaptive Capability Diagnostic: a structured engagement that scores organizations across 6 dimensions and produces a clear roadmap for building transformation capability.
- Advising executives on transformation portfolio management: which initiatives to run simultaneously, how to sequence them, and how to build the governance to sustain all of it.
- Speaking at industry events including executive roundtables, conferences, webinars, and podcasts on building organizational adaptability at scale.
Alexander Kohl
Senior Manager, Project Management, Scrum, Recruiting, Business Development, Sales
Last position:
Senior Manager, Project Management, Scrum, Recruiting, Business Development, Sales at Accilium GmbH
- Focus on digital transformation in the energy and mobility sector, including SAP R3 transition to S/4HANA
- Project management and requirements engineering in the energy sector (workshops, requirement specification creation, process development)
- Advice on the mobility strategy for public transport/transport of Stadtwerke Wien
- Development of digital strategies for after-sales program at Daimler-Benz
Benjamin Auer
Program / Project Management
Last position:
Multi-Project Manager at Trading Company
- Setup of a new Data Warehouse (Budget ~€15M 2025 – 2026)
- Backend modernization project (Budget ~€5M 2025 – 2026)
- Standard software rollout with custom programming (Budget ~€9M 2025 – 2026)
Stephan Jansen
Interim Transformation Manager
Last position:
Interim Project Management Office Advisor at Noske-Kaeser Equans
Project management and process harmonization between the French parent company (Equans Group, Axima Marine) and the German production company (Noske Kaeser) for maritime cooling and air conditioning systems.
Nikola Neloski
Founder and CEO - Senior Business Analyst
Last position:
Founder and CEO - Senior Business Analyst at fintechno AI GmbH
- Business analysis
- Requirements engineering
- System design
- Various insurance projects
- Technology stack: msg.Billing (in-/ex-collection)
- Product: Pay-per-use car insurance based on blockchain and OBD-II real-time telemetry with AI
Michael Polivanov
Delivery Lead | IT-Implementation & Strategic Requirements Engineering
Last position:
Strategy Consultant & Program Architect at Hypo Tirol Bank AG
- Portfolio Analysis & Migration Roadmap: Conducted structured analysis and risk classification of the HCL Notes infrastructure, created a prioritized migration portfolio with effort estimates as a key decision basis for management.
- Target Architecture & Modernization Concept: Developed the architecture strategy for retiring legacy applications, defined requirements for a centralized business process engine to reduce OPEX and licensing costs in the long term.
- Program Governance & Setup: Established roadmap and backlog structures as well as central project documentation (MS SharePoint), set up stakeholder management for the Notes decommissioning program.
Thomas Schuetz
Cloud Native Trainer and Architect
Last position:
Cloud Native Trainer and Architect / Owner at TSC Labs e.U.
Focus:
- Developing and providing Cloud Native Courses
- Architecture Consulting for Platform Engineering and Cloud Native
- Supporting Teams and People on their Cloud Native Journey
Delivered Trainings:
- Kubernetes Fundamentals - From Pods to Ingresses; 2 Days
- Platform Engineering on GKE - Operators, GitOps, Gateway API, Policy Management, Storage; 2 Days
- Platform Engineering on AKS - GitOps, External Secrets, Policy Management, Ingress/Gateway API and Storage; 4 Days
Currently In Progress:
- Platform Engineering Basic / Advanced on OpenShift - OpenShift/Kubernetes Basics, GitOps, External DNS, External Secrets; Multi-Step Program with 2 Course Blocks (3 and 2 Days) and self-paced projects
Fabio Galvagni
IT Architect, Requirements Analyst and Consultant
Last position:
IT Architect, Requirements Analyst and Consultant at CANCOM
- Supports CANCOM customers in migrating legacy on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Foundry
- Takes over and stabilizes existing solutions after a short handover
- Business analysis and requirements engineering for migration to a new cloud environment
- Optimization of machine learning models for feature extraction and customer profiling
- Ensures data protection and compliance
- Leads the migration of on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric
- Designs new AI platforms for clients
- Tests the integration of chatbots for document intelligence with Microsoft Foundry, including requirements analysis, implementation, validation, and client communication
Jerry Bousardo
Owner
Last position:
Owner at DIGIPM Consulting e.U.
From 02/2023 to 05/2024: IT interim manager within an international construction chemicals group headquartered in Germany as Global TSA Manager in a carve-out project responsible for the IT workstream.
From 06/2024: IT consulting in project management and IT service management areas, providing PM/PMO coaching and support.
Sergiu Mocian
IT Project Manager & Transformation Lead
Last position:
IT Project Manager & Transformation Lead at OMV
- Program delivery: set-up of strategic initiatives from ideation to execution, designing cross-divisional operating models that streamlined delivery across 6 business units.+
- Large scale initiatives: IT project manager of eMobility mobile app development for entire group, cross-country and multi-year initiative, with budget oversight of >2Mn and 20 FTEs.
- Product lifecycle management: delivered the end-to-end SDLC of a key B2B digital mobility application, successfully launching to 10 000+ users while managing vendor partnerships and system architecture.
- Vendor oversight: successfully negotiated and managed multi-vendor contracts, with negotiated contract value of 30% with no impact on scope.
- Architecture definition: definition of system architectures to ensure scalable, cost-effective solutions for the pricing, logistics and mobility domains, integration of 3 back-end systems.
- Digital transformation & coaching: supported group-wide agile maturity as a coach, upskilling pool of over 40 professionals in Product Management to increase delivery predictability and ensure value-driven approach.
Elke Zens
Business Consultant, IT Service Provider, System Coach
Last position:
Business Consultant, IT Service Provider, System Coach
- Consulting and support for companies in strategic and operational changes to increase efficiency and adaptability
- Leadership coaching: Development and support of executives to strengthen decision-making, team leadership and leadership competencies
- Change management: Design and implementation of change strategies for successful introduction of new processes and structures in digital transformation projects
- Process design: Analysis, optimization and redesign of business processes, including end-to-end process management
- Planning, control and implementation of complex IT projects
- Taking on roles such as Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile Coach
- Project management and PMO: Managing interdisciplinary teams, resource management and monitoring budgets and schedules
- Requirements engineering and business analysis
- Documentation and release management
- Taking on temporary leadership roles to stabilize and develop teams and business areas
- Employee management: Responsibility for leading and developing teams in challenging phases
- Strategic stabilization through implementation of sustainable measures
- Operational implementation of projects
Thorsten Staufer
Manager & Intelligent Automation Lead Austria
Last position:
Manager & Intelligent Automation Lead Austria at Ernst & Young Management Consulting GmbH
Expansion of the 'Intelligent Automation' business unit
Team leadership & staff responsibility for 6 employees
Acquisition and project management for process digitization projects
Development and expansion of marketing and sales strategy
Coordination with international stakeholders in 'Intelligent Automation'
Implementation of a new project methodology in the RPA area
Development and expansion of a successful partner management
Expansion of 'Intelligent Automation' in the DACH region
Acquisition of strategically relevant projects
Cédric Monnier
Senior Test Engineer / Test Coordinator
Last position:
Senior Test Engineer / Test Coordinator at Ministry of Finance
- Integration of a standard software for customs clearance (EU project NCTS 5 & 6)
- Test planning and analysis through domain workshops
- Creation of 250 detailed test cases with corresponding test messages
- Automation of 80% of tests in the Java-based TAF
- Tools: SoapUI, Selenium, Jenkins, Confluence, TestNG, IBM Rational
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Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) statistics
Typical experience
21 years
Average project duration
3.1 years
Certifications per freelancer
7
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Professional Services
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
86%
Doctorate
21%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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A Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) shows that the person understands Scrum from the Scrum.org perspective and can support a team in using it correctly. It signals practical knowledge of facilitation, coaching, and the Scrum Master role, not just familiarity with agile vocabulary. For companies, that is a useful sign when they need someone who can help a team work in a disciplined but flexible way.
Compared with broader agile certificates, it is more specific and more grounded in Scrum rules and principles. It is also often seen as the starting point before stronger Scrum Master practice and deeper coaching experience.
Professional Scrum Master I is a good fit for people who lead Scrum teams, support product delivery, or coach teams through agile change. It also suits project professionals who are moving from command-and-control delivery toward facilitation and team enablement. Companies hiring for Scrum Master work usually expect the person to handle collaboration, conflict, and continuous improvement.
The Scrum.org PSM I assessment expects solid understanding of the Scrum Guide and how Scrum works in practice. A candidate should be comfortable with roles, events, artifacts, and the purpose behind each of them. Reading the guide closely and applying it to real team situations matters more than memorizing terms.
Many professionals prepare on their own, while others combine study with training or hands-on Scrum experience. What matters most is a clear understanding of Scrum and the ability to reason through practical situations.
Professional Scrum Master I does not follow a renewal cycle in the usual sense. Once earned, it remains part of the holder’s profile, which is one reason it is widely used as a stable signal of Scrum knowledge. Companies still look for real-world experience, because the certificate alone does not prove day-to-day effectiveness.
In Austria, PSM I is especially useful in software, digital product, and transformation projects where teams need stronger structure and clearer collaboration. It can also help in international setups where English is used for delivery but local stakeholders still expect precise coordination. The certification is most valuable when a company wants a freelancer who can keep Scrum practical, not ceremonial.
PSM I is a strong screening signal, but it should not be the only one. Good Scrum Master work also depends on facilitation style, team maturity, stakeholder handling, and real delivery experience. When you hire, look for proof that the freelancer has used Scrum in situations similar to yours.
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