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PSPO I holders know how to shape product goals, manage the Product Backlog, and turn stakeholder input into clear priorities. Find vetted freelancers with strong Scrum.org Product Owner skills fast and with precision.
About the certification
What PSPO I proves
Professional Scrum Product Owner I, also known as PSPO I, is Scrum.org’s entry-level Product Owner certification. It shows that a freelancer understands how to maximize product value inside a Scrum team and can make sound product decisions based on evidence, not guesswork.
- Product vision and value focus
- Product Backlog ownership and ordering
- Stakeholder collaboration and trade-offs
- Empirical product decisions in Scrum
- Release thinking and value delivery
Core Product Owner skills
A PSPO I holder should be able to explain what the Product Owner is accountable for and what is best left to the Scrum Team or the business. The certification also points to practical knowledge of product strategy, backlog refinement, and working with changing priorities.
- Writing and shaping valuable backlog items
- Ordering work by value, risk, and learning
- Working with clear goals and outcomes
- Supporting product discovery and feedback loops
- Collaborating with developers and stakeholders
Typical holder profile
Companies often look at PSPO I when they need a freelancer who can step into product leadership, support an internal Product Owner, or help a team reset its backlog. In Germany, it is especially useful when English-speaking product work is done across mixed teams, but local collaboration with German stakeholders still matters.
PSPO I is common among product managers moving into Scrum, interim Product Owners, consultants, and agile coaches who need a stronger product lens.
What it means for projects
Hiring someone with the Professional Scrum Product Owner I certification suggests they understand how to keep a product moving without treating the backlog as a simple task list. They should be comfortable in projects where priorities shift, requirements are unclear, and value must be revisited often.
- New digital products and platform work
- Agile transformations with product ownership gaps
- Backlog recovery and prioritization cleanup
- Cross-functional delivery with many stakeholders
- Product work that needs strong focus on outcome
How to assess a freelancer
The certification is a good signal, but not a substitute for real product judgment. Ask how the freelancer sets priorities, handles conflict between stakeholders, and decides whether a backlog item is ready, delayed, or dropped.
For teams in Germany, it also helps to ask how they work with local business users, distributed Scrum teams, and mixed-language meetings.
Related names and levels
Searchers often use PSPO I, Professional Scrum Product Owner I, or the shorter Product Owner wording when looking for this profile. It is the first PSPO level and fits professionals who know Scrum basics and want a solid Product Owner foundation.
Later levels go deeper into advanced product strategy and complex situations, but PSPO I already tells you the freelancer understands the day-to-day Product Owner role in Scrum.
Meet FRATCH Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Felix Bauchspiess
Program, Portfolio & Transformation Management
Last position:
Digital Consultant and Solution Manager at Vorwerk SE & Co. KG
Introduction of a new digital product in the Chinese market as part of a global growth strategy.
Point of contact and coordinating interface between central product management, local Chinese teams, and international stakeholders.
Management of the full program management effort to coordinate complex digital projects.
Successful launch of a digital product in China (including successful certification for the Chinese market).
Balancing local requirements with global priorities while taking tax and regulatory conditions into account.
Introduction of a new way of working to improve cross-site collaboration and steering.
Development and implementation of a scaling strategy for the digital business model in China.
Used Jira, Confluence, Miro, Scrum, Agile work, SAFe.
Project language: English.
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
Wolfgang Orgler
Business Analyst
Last position:
Business Analyst at Österreichische Post AG
IT systems: Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Opal/Repost, JustinMind, Monday, SAP
Analysis of requirements for branch software
Coordination of intercultural teams
Partly agile project organization
Master data management / DMS
UI/UX design and mockup creation
Requirements documentation
Digitalization of signatures
Stakeholder management and workshop facilitation
Billing/bank transfer
Business analysis / requirements engineering
Christian Florschütz
Interim Manager Customer Service, AI, ESG | Expert for Customer Satisfaction, Revenue and Sustainability
Last position:
Freelance Interim Manager, Head of Operations & Service at DK Household Brands
- Stabilization of customer service, logistics and order processing during a transformation phase
- Management of the international warehouse relocation from Switzerland to Germany
- Optimization of processes and reduction of manual steps in day-to-day operations
- Coordination of international stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of strategic projects
Bruno Petrovic
Independent Consultant for Digital Products & Processes
Last position:
Product Owner
Concept and implementation of a unified-commerce platform for SMEs for selling and building multi-product bundles
Successes: On-time concept, delivery, and customer acceptance of a 100% functional, CPQ-based buy flow process for configuring and selling multi-product bundles within the given 90-day time frame. Successfully tested integration of various interface services for the following areas: customer search, customer data enrichment, address validation, service qualification, phone number validation, credit check, appointment selection, and quote-to-order transition.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic target delivery: deriving and implementing strategic customer goals (e.g. release content, business value).
- Backlog management: creating and refining backlog items (initiatives, epics, user stories, defects) in close coordination with the project team and customer.
- Prioritization & releases: responsibility for prioritizing the product backlog and delivering defined release goals.
- Deliverable tracking: tracking work results on both the supplier and customer side.
- Roadmap & release planning: developing and implementing roadmaps and release plans together with the customer.
- Scope responsibility: responsibility for the contractually agreed scope of services.
- Claim management: active claim and change management toward the customer.
- Team coordination: steering and coordinating the development team.
- Using synergies: making use of synergies between customer projects and product development.
- Offer preparation: preparing offers (with supervision) and presenting them on site to customers and partners.
Skills: development, communication, and implementation of product visions; product backlog management; stakeholder management; regular reporting to management and steering committees; requirements analysis & engineering; planning and documenting workshops; functional leadership and coordination of (distributed) project teams and external service providers; epic management; user story specifications; creating use cases, support with software tests and user acceptance testing (UAT); release management and sprint planning; design of target processes; process optimization; planning, concept, and specification of interfaces to existing and new systems; identification, assessment, and steering of project risks; active claim and change management; facilitation of sprint planning and reviews; data migration; Scrum; Kanban; REST API; JSON; XML; BPMN; UML; Jira; Confluence
David Schindler
Senior Marketing & Communications Manager with an AI focus. Strategy, content and execution all from one source.
Last position:
Senior Marketing and Communications Consultant at NetCologne Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH
- Managed marketing, content and communications projects with six-figure budgets for a regional telecommunications and IT service provider
- Developed and managed content and video formats from concept to production, including shoot planning
- Led and coordinated social media managers, creative teams as well as external agencies and service providers
- Conceptualized, developed and optimized campaign landing pages throughout the entire lifecycle
- Managed collaboration between departments, management and external partners
- Ensured consistent brand communication as well as timely and high-quality delivery of all projects
Joachim Auster
Project Manager HubSpot, Tracking + Analytics Expert
Last position:
Project Manager HubSpot, Tracking + Analytics Expert at Swiss Post
- Create a tracking concept for Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics including data layer, events, triggers, and reporting
- Manage the project team (developers, designers, performance specialists)
- Serve as communication interface between stakeholders and digital departments
Carsten Rösner
Enterprise Product Owner / CTO
Last position:
Enterprise Product Owner at opta data IT GmbH
- Product responsibility for the central platform "one" as a group-wide web-based customer portal
- Coordination of the connection of 20 group companies to the product platform
- Derivation and steering of a group-wide product strategy and roadmap aligned with company goals
- Prioritization and bundling of strategic requirements from the various group companies
- Harmonization of different interests and moderation of complex decision-making processes at management level
- Ensuring the technical and business integration of the product into existing system landscapes, business processes, and business models
- Building transparent governance and decision-making structures for group-wide product development
- Representation of the product towards internal and external stakeholders at leadership level
Thorsten Huber
Agile Coach, Product Owner, Technical Consultant
Last position:
Product Owner, Technical Consultant at crazyALEX.de GmbH
- Reduced technical complexity and created a clear architectural foundation for AI-supported business processes.
- Used RAG and fine-tuning concepts to make internal knowledge available in a secure on-premise platform.
- Created the basis for automatable processes and higher efficiency.
- Designed and set up the AI infrastructure (NVIDIA DGX Spark, vector DB).
- Requirements gathering and stakeholder management.
- Prototyping of use cases (knowledge chatbot, document analysis).
- Technologies: Qdrant, Ollama, AnythingLLM, n8n, DGX Spark, Python/PyTorch.
Vadim Romanenko
Senior Product Owner & IT Project Manager | Mobile Banking · PSD2 · AI Product Development | 19M+ Users | Frankfurt · Remote
Last position:
Product Owner – Mobile Banking App at Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe
- End-to-end product responsibility for one of Germany's leading mobile banking apps with approx. 19 million customers — from backlog prioritization and roadmap planning to rollout and quality assurance.
- Functional leadership of a cross-functional squad (Android, iOS, QA, UX, Compliance, Architecture) including a nearshore development team in a scaled agile environment (tribe/squad model); responsible for time-to-market and quality.
- Design and implementation of an intent-based semantic search logic (“Intelligent Search”) — including user intent taxonomy, ranking logic, and iterative improvement based on usage data.
- Delivery of core features: savings pots, deep links, BFSG accessibility — translating regulatory requirements into structured epics and user stories.
- Primary interface between business, IT, and regulatory stakeholders — accelerating feature release processes through clear communication structures.
Patrick Wich
Scrum Master / Agile Coach
Last position:
Scrum Master / Agile Coach at Waygate Technologies
- Restarting and improving the Scrum process
- Reorganizing and structuring the product backlog in Azure DevOps
- Defining and implementing agile KPIs to measure team performance
- Introducing medium-term planning iterations to ensure delivery dates
- Coaching an advanced development team in finding flow
Jörg Hopfgarten
Sales Consultant and Interim Manager
Last position:
Interim Sales Director at Frosted Games Spieleverlag GmbH
- Leading and coordinating the sales team (3 people)
- Building (digital) processes, KPIs, and controlling in sales
- Negotiating terms and planning marketing partnerships with key accounts
- Creating forecasts and setting up a CRM system
Florian B.
AI Business Architect
Last position:
Digital Transformation Manager
Business development of my freelance work:
- Building new business relationships through lead pipelines and low-threshold communication strategies (outreach, presentations, webinars, proposals)
- Converting prospects through pre-sales consulting and RFP management
- Developing AI-driven methods to improve efficiency in project administration
- Completing certifications in AI & digitalization:
- Certified Digital Transformation Manager
- Certified AI Manager
- Certified AI Officer
Thomas Gaiser
Interim Digital Product Manager
Last position:
Interim Digital Product Manager at Novartis Pharma GmbH
- Defined and established a clear product strategy and roadmap to align product development with business goals and market trends
- Led and prioritized product requirements for cross-functional, international stakeholder groups (TA, brand family, content managers, legal)
- Efficiently managed the development process in international agile teams for on-time and on-budget delivery of critical product releases
- Led product launch and marketing activities in coordination with channel orchestration experts
- Monitored and analyzed product performance metrics (KPIs) to optimize and maximize business value with data-driven insights
Lisa-Simone Flämig
Freelance Consultant
Last position:
Freelance Consultant at Flämig Consulting
- Development of modular service building blocks
- Creation of practical templates and standard deliverables
- Conducting scoping discussions
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Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) statistics
Typical experience
19 years
Average project duration
2.4 years
Certifications per freelancer
7
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
95%
Master's degree or higher
61%
Doctorate
8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Curious about FRATCH? Find the answers you need
A freelancer with the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification has shown a solid understanding of the Product Owner role in Scrum. That includes value focus, backlog ordering, stakeholder alignment, and product decisions based on evidence. It is a useful signal when you need someone who can guide product direction, not just manage tasks.
No. PSPO I proves Scrum.org knowledge of the role, but it does not replace real product work. The best freelancers combine the certification with examples of backlog management, stakeholder work, and product choices they have made in practice.
Professional Scrum Product Owner I fits people who work as Product Owners, product managers in Scrum environments, business analysts moving closer to product ownership, and consultants who support agile products. It is also a good first step for professionals who want a clear Scrum.org credential before moving to more advanced product work.
PSPO I focuses on product ownership, while other Scrum.org certifications may focus on Scrum fundamentals, development, or advanced mastery. If you are hiring, PSPO I tells you the person should understand product value, backlog priorities, and stakeholder trade-offs. That is different from a certificate that mainly proves general Scrum knowledge.
Preparing for PSPO I usually means learning the Scrum framework in depth and applying it to real product situations. Strong candidates study product ownership, value creation, backlog ordering, and the responsibilities of the Product Owner in complex teams. Hands-on experience helps a lot, but it is not the only path.
Scrum.org does not treat PSPO I as a certification with strict formal prerequisites in the way some other programs do. Many people take it after working in Scrum teams or after studying Scrum.org materials and the Scrum Guide. A practical understanding of product work makes the exam much easier to approach.
The PSPO I credential does not depend on a traditional renewal cycle in the same way as some other certifications. Scrum.org keeps the certification tied to its assessment model, so professionals should still stay current on Scrum and product practices. For companies, that means the certificate is best read together with recent project experience.
In Germany, Professional Scrum Product Owner I is useful in software, digital products, consulting, and transformation projects where teams work in Scrum and product priorities change often. It is especially relevant when companies need someone who can work with both German-speaking stakeholders and international delivery teams. Remote, hybrid, and on-site setups can all benefit from this profile.
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