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PSM I signals strong command of Scrum roles, events, empiricism, facilitation, and servant leadership. Find vetted freelancers in Berlin who can support agile teams, coach delivery, and remove process friction with fast, precise matching.
About the certification
What PSM I proves
Professional Scrum Master I, often shortened to PSM I, is Scrum.org’s entry-level certification for people who can apply Scrum in real team settings. It shows that a professional understands how Scrum works, why it exists, and how a Scrum Master helps a team stay focused on value, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Core skills
A freelancer with this certification is usually strong in the practical side of Scrum, not just the theory. They know how to support teams without taking over delivery, how to keep meetings useful, and how to help Product Owners and Developers work with clear purpose.
- Scrum roles, accountabilities, and team boundaries
- Scrum events and how to make them effective
- Empiricism, inspection, and adaptation
- Servant leadership and facilitation
- Coaching a team toward better flow and ownership
- Removing impediments without becoming a project manager in disguise
Typical holder profile
PSM I is common among Scrum Masters, agile coaches, delivery leads, and consultants who work with product teams. In Berlin, it is a useful signal for companies that run mixed teams, work with international stakeholders, or need a freelancer who can step into an existing setup with limited onboarding.
What employers can expect
A Professional Scrum Master I freelancer should be able to help a team improve how it plans, collaborates, and learns. They are often brought in when delivery feels noisy, ceremonies have become routine, or the team needs a clearer understanding of Scrum values and responsibilities.
- Clearer and more disciplined Scrum events
- Better understanding of roles and ownership
- Stronger team self-management
- More effective use of transparency and feedback
- Support for change in product and delivery teams
Preparation and renewal
PSM I is earned through Scrum.org’s assessment-based approach. Candidates usually prepare by studying the Scrum Guide carefully and by working through practical scenarios, not by memorizing slogans. The certification is known for testing real understanding of the framework, especially around empiricism, accountabilities, and how Scrum differs from command-and-control project management.
When it matters most
PSM I matters in product development, software delivery, digital transformation, and any organization that uses Scrum to coordinate complex work. It is especially relevant when a team is scaling collaboration across locations, working with English-speaking stakeholders, or bringing in a freelancer to improve how Scrum is used day to day in Berlin or in remote settings.
Meet FRATCH Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Chris Wolf
IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT | PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | STRATEGY CONSULTING
Last position:
Senior Strategy Advisor, Transformation Lead – program realignment with target picture, governance, and priority steering at Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe | S-Communication Services
In-house consulting provider and driver of transformation within the group, multi-stakeholder environment and C-level.
Realignment and stabilization of a cross-functional transformation and scaling program within the group. Sharpening the target picture, priorities, and set of measures, as well as building reliable governance, planning, and steering structures. Structuring roles, responsibilities, and strategic initiatives while including AI and IT automation ideas.
Designed program realignment and project portfolio management
Developed strategy model and target picture for IT projects
Structured portfolio, roadmap, and priorities
Established governance and regular meetings
Worked out operating model for flagship projects
Assessed AI and automation ideas
Clarified roles and responsibilities
Implemented change measures
Developed, moderated, and evaluated workshops
Transformed 17 initiatives into a steering model
Increased transparency and decision-making ability
Strengthened commitment in steering
Sharpened the operating model structurally
Integrated three top-5 institutes
Involved over 80% of stakeholders
Governance
Portfolio steering (PPM)
Change management
Artificial intelligence
Workflow automation
AI use case assessment
Confluence
Jira
Stakeholder management
Christin Köhler
Founder & Consultant
Last position:
Founder & Consultant at Self-employed
- Workshops on methods and support programs for teams and leaders who really want to use AI in their daily work – not just a tool demo, but a change in workflows and roles
- Designing tailored AI adoption journeys: from discovery through pilot use cases to embedding them in routines and governance
- Sparring for leaders balancing speed, skill building, and cultural viability
Lasse Wagener
Managing Director | Agile Consultant | Scrum Master | Business Analyst
Last position:
Managing Director | Agile Consultant | Scrum Master | Business Analyst at Wagener Consulting GmbH
- Spearheaded the transformation of Telefonica Germany’s cloud journey into a self-service, automated marketplace by leading process analysis and design efforts; facilitated UX/UI collaboration and served as Scrum Master for cross-functional agile teams to ensure timely and quality delivery
- Designed, launched, and managed an enterprise-wide Learning & Development program focused on cloud-native skills, upskilling over 1,500 employees; undertook full vendor management including sourcing, tendering, contract negotiation, and ongoing partnership to ensure curriculum alignment with evolving organizational needs
- Implemented cloud migration processes aligned with corporate compliance and process governance; improved process transparency and audit readiness while reducing operational risks
- Architected and led a cross-divisional communication strategy to enhance organizational engagement; developed multiple channels including newsletters and intranet content, acting as single point of contact for all departmental communications to ensure consistency and alignment
Steffen Seitz
Senior Technical PM, CRM Core Experience & AI
Last position:
Senior Technical PM, CRM Core Experience & AI at Propstack GmbH (Scout24 S.E.)
- Built a JTBD-based prioritization framework for 3,000+ accumulated feature requests, identified 27 broker jobs, validated 8 through 25 user interviews, and used the resulting job map as a live prioritization filter for all incoming channels (Upvoty, CSAT, consulting tickets).
- Responsible for the Scout24 Lighthouse initiative: Document Intelligence with full RAG architecture (semantic chunking, bge-m3 embeddings, pgvector, BM25+Dense hybrid retrieval).
- Reduced lead time of customer feature requests to 3.1 days through code analysis, ticket specification, and independent implementation using a coding agent (Codex).
- Developed an LLM-based support agent (GPT-4o mini, Codex-generated merge requests) that reduced 3rd-level escalations from 40% to 5% of all monthly tickets.
- Integrated six partners through technical coordination, specification, backlog and release management, and led seven full stack developers.
- Eliminated regulatory exposure for brokers in six weeks through risk analysis (BGH ruling on distance selling/GDPR), new audit features, and coordination with legal and data protection officers.
Hüseyin Oğuz
Freelance Executive Consultant
Last position:
Freelance Executive Consultant at Oguz Consulting
- Management of large and distributed technology organizations. Leading the digital transformation.
- Program / Project Management, Service Delivery Management, Lean & Agile, PMBOK, ITIL.
- Consulting for continuous delivery, software development and delivery management.
- Consultancy and leadership through the agile and cloud transformation and the way to DevOps.
- Nearshoring of technology and software development projects.
- Consulting services for the RFI/RFP processes, contract negotiations and management.
- Consultancy on product development strategy and definition of the target market.
Gor Ohanyan
Senior IT Transformation Consultant and Business Analyst
Last position:
Senior IT Transformation Consultant and Business Analyst at Self-employed Consultant
Senior IT Transformation Consultant and Business Analyst with a focus on banking and large-scale transformation projects.
Many years of experience in analyzing, structuring, and implementing business requirements, as well as designing target states in complex IT landscapes.
Strong interface skills between business and IT, with a focus on translating business requirements into workable IT concepts and architectures.
Solid experience in designing and improving end-to-end processes, as well as creating business concepts and decision papers.
Proven project success in the areas of Identity & Access Management (IAM), post-merger integrations, IT infrastructure, and regulatory requirements.
Confident in working with agile methods and artifacts.
Matthias Zarzecki
Senior iOS & Flutter Developer
Last position:
Senior Flutter Developer at Materna
- Developed a Flutter app for eID ID card logins
- Focus: Flutter, iOS, eID, AusweisAppSDK, Mason, Keycloak, Agentic Coding, Arc42, Jenkins
Alexandro Lahmann
Senior Project Manager - RIS & PACS Replacement
Last position:
Senior Project Manager - RIS & PACS Replacement
- Replacement of a RIS and PACS system in combination with three different software solutions, with a focus on redesigning and further developing existing processes.
- Ensuring the interaction of the individual solutions and their integration into one overall solution to provide optimal support for medical staff in their daily work.
- Overall project management including coordination of three service providers.
- Use of technologies and solutions such as RIS, PACS, Smart Reporting, and Artificial Intelligence.
- Leading the RIS & PACS replacement in a hospital.
- Support with the communication strategy.
- Coordination of external and internal resources.
- Stakeholder management.
- Steering of steering committees.
Alexander Vitanyi
Product Owner
Last position:
Product Owner at FI-TS
- Rebuilding an existing cloud solution with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, GitLab, Argo CD and PostgreSQL
- Coordinating and managing external partners and service providers
- Ensuring service delivery on time and on budget with budget responsibility
- Integrating the cloud solution with external public clouds (AWS)
- Setting up and defining processes and workflows in Jira and Confluence
- Product management of software development for automation and self-service in CI/CD DevOps mode
- Agile software development with Kanban and Scrum in various development teams
- Single point of contact for key customers in respective projects
- Creating and aligning the product backlog with stakeholders from sales, architecture, development teams, marketing, management and customers
- Migrating existing customers to the AWS cloud as product owner
- Creating and aligning a product roadmap with internal and external stakeholders
Anett Kriska
CRM System Implementation Project Lead Microsoft Dynamics 365, Freelance
Last position:
CRM System Implementation Project Lead Microsoft Dynamics 365, Freelance at Ampere AG
- Agile IT project management for the CRM system implementation
- Product Owner for the replacement of two CRM systems
- Creation of the project structure plan and project team
- Managing the gathering of all requirements (requirements management)
- System selection and procurement including contract negotiations with Prodware Deutschland AG
- Managing the data migration and system implementation
- Conducting a proof of concept and creating the MVP together with Prodware Deutschland AG
Heike Röttgers
Systemic organizational consulting, facilitation, coaching & training
Last position:
Instructor for the "Agile Agents" training at ProScenario
Kolja Schönfeld
Transformation Consultant
Last position:
Transformation Consultant at Enterprise Dynamics
- Consulting, coaching, workshops, and project management focused on transformation, potential development, and sustainable growth
Muhammad Latif
AI Product Intelligence SaaS Platform
Last position:
AI Product Intelligence SaaS Platform at ProductLogik
- Defined product vision, roadmap, and subscription-based monetization model.
- Architected multimodel AI orchestration (Gemini + GPT fallback) ensuring reliability and cost efficiency.
- Designed explainable insight engine with confidence scoring and agile antipattern detection.
- Built and deployed full-stack architecture (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, React) with secure authentication and quota governance.
- Tech: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, React, TypeScript, Stripe, Gemini API, OpenAI API.
Sebastian Striebig
Group Product Manager – Digital Platform Discovery
Last position:
Group Product Manager – Digital Platform Discovery at SPREAD.AI
- Developed and implemented organization-wide discovery framework based on Ulwick’s Outcome-Driven Innovation; enabled 7 Product Owners to systematically identify and quantify unrealized value through shared outcome language and opportunity scoring methodology
- Transformed Product Owner role from backlog clerks to strategic experimenters; established dedicated time budget for autonomous hypothesis testing and discovery activities
- Rebuilt customer journey maps to start at actual user need (tool selection phase) instead of platform entry point; eliminated manual data aggregation work previously done by project teams
- Implemented OKR framework across 4 product teams; defined quarterly objectives with measurable key results (e.g., 40% reduction in manual integration effort, self-service adoption increase)
- Unified 3 separate platform roadmaps through cross-team dependency mapping and shared service agreements
- Supported enterprise sales cycle with ROI modeling and technical due diligence for automotive and defense customers
Dominique Lambert
Head of Transformation
Last position:
Agile Transformation Lead at EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
Role & Scope Responsible for realigning a unit of 600+ people as part of the top leadership team. Led a team of agile coaches and oversaw the entire transformation architecture – strategic, structural and cultural.
Result The organization was fundamentally professionalized – reduced friction and costs, faster execution, higher team motivation and visibly more effective leadership.
Key Contributions
- Redesigned strategy and implementation processes
- Created a clear link between vision, priorities and operational execution
- Established business-IT alignment and communication structures
- Embedded shared goals, priorities and decision paths
- Developed a leadership-operating model
- Strengthened roles, responsibilities and leadership culture
- Introduced a unit-wide impediment removal process
- Systematically identified obstacles, assigned owners and developed solutions
- Consolidated 35+ Jira boards
- Created cross-unit manageability and transparency
- Led a team of agile coaches; established skill matrices and improvement processes
- Solidified a learning and development culture
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Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) statistics
Typical experience
17 years
Average project duration
2.6 years
Certifications per freelancer
5
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Education
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
98%
Master's degree or higher
80%
Doctorate
7%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
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Average rates for Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) & Seniority distribution
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions in mind? Get key insights about FRATCH
A Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification validates a solid understanding of Scrum principles and the Scrum Master role. It shows that the person can explain how Scrum is meant to work and can support a team without turning the role into traditional project management. For employers, it is a useful signal that the freelancer understands the framework at a practical level.
PSM I is an official Scrum.org certification, while “Scrum Master” is often just a job title. The certification gives you a more reliable clue that the person has studied Scrum carefully and can discuss the framework in a structured way. That makes it easier to compare freelancers who may all call themselves Scrum Masters.
Professional Scrum Master I is a good fit for people who work with Scrum teams and want to prove they understand the framework well. That includes Scrum Masters, agile coaches, delivery leads, and consultants who help teams improve collaboration. It can also be useful for developers or Product Owners who work closely with Scrum and want stronger overall fluency.
A PSM I holder should understand Scrum roles, events, artifacts, and the ideas behind empiricism and self-management. They should also know how to help teams inspect their work, adapt quickly, and keep meetings purposeful. In practice, this means they can support delivery, not just repeat textbook definitions.
Professional Scrum Master I does not exist only for senior people, but it is easier to earn if the candidate has real exposure to Scrum teams. Scrum.org expects solid understanding of the Scrum Guide and the ability to apply it to realistic situations. People who prepare well usually combine reading with hands-on work in agile teams.
If you see PSM I on a Berlin freelancer profile, it is a strong sign that the person can work with international teams, English-language ceremonies, and hybrid collaboration. It does not replace a conversation about industry fit, but it helps narrow the field to candidates who understand Scrum fundamentals. That is especially useful when you need someone to join quickly and improve team discipline.
PSM I is the foundation level in Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Master path. Higher levels go further into advanced practice and deeper mastery, but the I level is often the first checkpoint employers look for. For many projects, it is enough to show that the freelancer can operate confidently in a Scrum environment.
Yes, PSM I is very relevant for remote and hybrid teams because those setups need clear facilitation, disciplined communication, and strong team ownership. A certified freelancer can help make Scrum events shorter, clearer, and more useful when people are spread across locations. That is valuable in Berlin companies working with distributed stakeholders or international delivery teams.
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