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PSM I shows real command of Scrum roles, servant leadership, and day-to-day team coaching. It also signals practical knowledge of backlog work, events, and removing blockers in complex product work. Find vetted freelancers in Hamburg who hold this certification, fast and precisely.
About the certification
What PSM I proves
Professional Scrum Master I, also known as PSM I, is Scrum.org’s entry-level Scrum Master certification. It shows that the holder understands the Scrum framework and can apply it in real team settings, not just repeat theory. For companies, it is a strong signal that the freelancer can support agile delivery with discipline and clarity.
Core skills
- Scrum roles, accountabilities, and team collaboration
- Sprint planning, daily work, review, and retrospective events
- Coaching the team without acting as a command-and-control manager
- Helping remove impediments and protect focus
- Supporting transparency, inspection, and adaptation
Typical freelancer profile
PSM I often suits Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, project leads moving into agile delivery, and product teams that need stronger Scrum practice. Many holders work with software teams, digital product groups, and organizations that are shifting from traditional project control to empirical product development. In Hamburg, this certification is especially relevant when teams work in mixed setups with local stakeholders and remote developers.
Knowledge behind the certificate
A PSM I holder should understand the rules and purpose of Scrum events, the Product Backlog, the Sprint Backlog, and the role of the Scrum Master as a servant leader. The certification also reflects awareness of empiricism, self-management, and how to help a team improve its way of working. It is useful when a company needs someone who can spot weak Scrum habits and guide the team back to working with the framework as intended.
What it means for companies
Hiring a freelancer with PSM I is useful when a team is struggling with delivery rhythm, unclear responsibilities, or ineffective ceremonies. The certification does not guarantee senior leadership or deep technical skill, but it does show a solid Scrum foundation and a shared vocabulary with experienced agile teams. For Hamburg-based organizations, that can make onboarding easier, especially when English is the working language or when teams span several locations.
Good fit for Scrum work
PSM I is a practical choice for organizations that want a freelancer who can keep Scrum events focused, help the team improve flow, and raise common agile issues early. It fits product development, transformation work, and team stabilization after growth or reorganization. For hiring managers, it is a useful filter when the real need is reliable Scrum discipline rather than broad agile branding.
Meet FRATCH Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
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
Arne Zühlke
Managing Director and Shareholder
Last position:
Managing Director and Shareholder at ARNESS GmbH & Co. KG
- Founded the company as a full-service consulting firm focused on purchasing and supply chain
- Commercial management of the company
- Digitalization and automation of work steps to reduce process costs
- Project management for optimization projects
- Connecting German companies with manufacturers abroad to achieve shorter delivery times and lower procurement costs at the same time
- Organizing B2B meetings between international companies
- Research on procurement markets (BestCostCountry) for the production of complex welded assemblies
- Taking on interim management assignments
Moritz Knüppel
Scrum Master, Agile Coach & Trainer
Last position:
Scrum Master, Agile Coach at Name on request
The managing director stepped back from day-to-day operations because he founded another company during Corona, which left the team without leadership for around 3 years.
My task was to train a new Product Owner, shape a coherent team from the developers and the Product Owner, and coach this newly formed team into a state where self-organized value delivery for the customer was possible again.
Due to the political situation in the US, the revenue of my client’s main customer dropped, which made a change in the business model necessary for my client. I was allowed to support the transition from a service provider to an AI-first company with a broad customer base in a strategic advisory role, hire staff, and facilitate several C-level negotiations between my client and its new customer.
TASKS
- Train the team and management in Scrum and agile working
- Coach a junior Product Owner to PSPO II level
- Mediate conflicts as part of change processes
- C-level consulting and negotiation facilitation
- Develop and evaluate business models
- Lead the hiring process for 4 new employees
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Successfully coached the Product Owner to PSPO II level
- Formed a coherent Scrum team from a team without leadership
- Restored self-organized value delivery for the customer
- Successfully transformed to AI-native development (Claude)
- Successfully changed the client’s business model
TOOLS & METHODS
- Team building
- NVC according to Rosenberg
- Conflict management
- Workshop facilitation
- Negotiation facilitation
- Leadership coaching
- Personio hiring
Over Díaz
Senior Quality Manager
Last position:
Senior Quality Manager at Denys GmbH
- Responsible for quality assurance (QA/QC), as-built documentation and audit planning
- Coordinating inspection of open trench and trenchless construction work (HDD, microtunneling)
- Quality control of HDPE pipe welding, conducting quality tests, pigging, pipe calibration and leak testing (pipe diameters 50–500 mm)
- Ensuring compliance with highest safety, environmental and quality standards
Christoph Lefkes
Program Manager - SAP S/4 HANA
Last position:
Program Manager - SAP S/4 HANA at BAHAG AG
- Took over the steering of the SAP S4 transformation program after 15 months of project duration
- Assessed the quality of soft facts, especially the quality of collaboration and communication
- Evaluation, program planning, resource control, and realignment of the timeline
- Introduction of the software delivery model and quality gates
- Initial scope definition in the form of business capabilities
- Introduction of enterprise architecture
- Reporting to the SteerCo for the S4 transformation program / C-level
- Risk management and escalation when project risks were identified
- Coordination of the various projects within the program
Patrick Mester
Product Owner
Last position:
Product Owner at Telefonica Deutschland GmbH
- Introduced a service management system
- Optimized processes
- Introduced an agile way of working
- Implemented and configured Atlassian Jira Service Management
- Prioritized features
- Coordinated with stakeholders and the business unit
- Managed the backlog and created user stories
- Managed the budget
- Coordinated a Scrum team
- Used Atlassian Jira and Confluence
- Used Microsoft Teams
- Worked with Scrum and Kanban
Holger Guschigk
Test Automation Engineer, Quality Assurance Consultant
Last position:
Test Automation Engineer, Quality Assurance Consultant at T-Systems
- Poliks – State Police System for information, communication, and case management and other state variants (ViVa, Bravo, customs)
- Developed a test framework for test automation to replace an existing proprietary test client for new developments, focusing on easy maintenance and simple extensibility for new technologies
- Designed the architecture
- Implemented the architecture
- Created a proof of concept by migrating existing test cases into the new test framework
- Platform: C#, .NET, Jira, XRay, Confluence, Playwright, Selenium, UI Automation, Appium, HTML, Git, VMWare, Windows 11, Linux
Vincent Rammelt
Trainer/Instructor
Last position:
Trainer/Instructor at ecomex GmbH & Co. KG
- Conducting e-commerce courses covering basics, digital business models & trends, competitor analysis, product casting, shop P&L, minimum viable product process, funnel & conversion rate optimization, shop platform evaluation, first steps with Shopify, shop structure setup, payment & shipping systems, ERP & interfaces, fulfillment, process optimization, customer centricity, affiliate marketing
Timo Daedrich
External Consultant for E-Commerce and Online Shops
Last position:
External Consultant for E-Commerce and Online Shops at Wörner Medizinprodukte und Logistik GmbH
- Project leadership for the relaunch of the B2B online shop based on SAP Commerce (formerly Shopware 5)
- Coordination of internal and external resources
- Stakeholder management and requirements management
- Support in the functional concept design of features
- Creation of project reports and running SteerCo meetings
- Leading and moderating regular meetings and alignments
- Consulting on the company's e-commerce strategy
- Sparring partner for the Head of E-Commerce
Franziska Knoblauch
Strategy Consulting
Last position:
Strategy Consulting at AXA Deutschland
- Developing a new test strategy for AXA Germany
- Analyzing the existing strategy and identifying current pain points
- Creating a survey to determine the status quo of current testing activities for each application system in the group
- Building a business case as a decision template for the executive board
- Creating a roadmap and related capacity planning to implement the new test strategy
- Optimizing internal planning processes related to test capacities
- Coordinating offshore activities and acting as liaison between the onsite team and offshore experts
Thomas Suwelack
Founder & CEO
Last position:
Founder & CEO at 21done Startup
- Founded, built, and led a company
- Led up to 6 FTEs to achieve company and investor goals
- Strategic management: mission, USP, goals, strategy & roadmap
- CX management: customer-focused products, offerings, and touchpoints
- Marketing & sales: B2C marketing, B2B sales, market research
Paul Köhler
Lead Flutter Developer
Last position:
Senior Flutter Developer at Elea.health
- Further development of a complex laboratory information system
- Development of new features including design
- Close collaboration with company leadership
- Embedded in a top team with consistently high performance under time pressure
- Agile approach, Kanban
Martin Imbeck
Freelance Project Manager
Last position:
Freelance Project Manager at Imbeck Consulting
- Taking on project/program management roles
- Leading a project at a Microsoft partner for the global rollout of Microsoft Dynamics CRM for a global company in the automation systems/control technology sector
Peter Neumann
IT Project Manager
Last position:
Pilot testing AI tools & sabbatical for house renovation
- Pilot testing local AI environments to explore local AI use cases and cloud-based AI solutions
- Evaluation of AI tools and techniques
- Use of local AI tools with own data sovereignty
- Prompt engineering
- Creation of example environments for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, text-to-image, text-to-video, and image-to-video
Tools: Grok, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Elevenlabs, Github, Ollama, HuggingFace, Open WebUI, Faster Whisper, LibreTranslate, WSL, Docker Desktop, Shotcut, Audacity, Sound eXchange, Ffmpeg, Coqui TTS, Pinokio, Stable Diffusion Web UI, ComfyUI, OWL, Void Editor
Claas Helms
Release Train Engineer (SAFe)
Last position:
Release Train Engineer (SAFe) at Volkswagen / CARIAD / dx.one
- Servant leader for an Agile Release Train (~60 people)
- Close collaboration with product management and system architecture
- Focus on remote management and cross-functional coordination
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Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) statistics
Typical experience
20 years
Average project duration
2.6 years
Certifications per freelancer
5
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Automotive
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Bachelor's degree or higher
83%
Master's degree or higher
48%
Doctorate
17%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
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Frequently Asked Questions
Looking for clear information? Everything important about FRATCH is here
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certifies that the holder understands Scrum as Scrum.org defines it and can apply it in real team situations. It focuses on the Scrum Master role, Scrum events, accountabilities, and the mindset needed to help a team work empirically. For companies, it is a sign that the freelancer knows the framework well enough to support day-to-day delivery.
PSM I is tied to Scrum.org and is known for testing solid Scrum knowledge rather than memorized buzzwords. Compared with broader agile certificates, it is more specific to Scrum mechanics and the Scrum Master role. Compared with higher levels in the Scrum.org path, it is the foundation level, so it tells you the person has the basics firmly in place.
Professional Scrum Master I is a strong fit for Scrum Masters, aspiring Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and project professionals moving into agile delivery. It also helps team leads or product people who need a clear understanding of how Scrum should work in practice. If your team needs someone to guide ceremonies and improve collaboration, this is a relevant signal.
A freelancer with PSM I is typically brought in to support Scrum teams, improve event quality, and help remove blockers that slow delivery. They may also coach stakeholders on how to work with a Scrum team without breaking its rhythm. In Hamburg, this can be useful for product teams that mix on-site sessions with remote collaboration.
Before pursuing PSM I, a candidate should be comfortable with the Scrum Guide and the practical meaning of each Scrum role, event, and artifact. The exam checks understanding of how Scrum works in real situations, so hands-on team experience helps. It is less about theory in isolation and more about applying the framework correctly.
There is no formal prerequisite that forces a certain job title or prior certificate before Professional Scrum Master I. In practice, people do best when they have some exposure to Scrum teams and have studied the Scrum Guide carefully. Companies should treat the certification as proof of baseline knowledge, not as a guarantee of senior experience.
Yes, PSM I is not a one-time learning badge that can be ignored forever. Scrum.org expects holders to stay current with Scrum knowledge and maintain the certification through its renewal rules. That matters for companies because it helps keep the holder aligned with the current Scrum.org view of Scrum.
PSM I matters most in software development, digital product work, platform teams, and transformation projects where Scrum is the main way of working. It is also relevant in larger organizations that need clearer team routines and better coordination between product, engineering, and stakeholders. In Hamburg, it is especially useful when the team must work smoothly across different locations or with English-speaking partners.
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