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PSPO II signals strong product ownership in complex Scrum settings: product vision, value-based decisions, stakeholder alignment, and ordering work for impact. Find vetted freelancers in Germany fast, with precise matching for Product Owners who can lead outcomes, not just backlogs.
About the certification
What PSPO II means
Professional Scrum Product Owner II, or PSPO II, is Scrum.org’s advanced certification for Product Owners who work beyond the basics of Scrum. It shows that a person can make sound product decisions in complex environments, not just describe a backlog.
What it validates
- Product vision and clear product goals
- Value-based prioritization and trade-off decisions
- Stakeholder management across business and delivery teams
- Empirical product thinking in Scrum
- Backlog ordering that supports outcomes, not output
A freelancer with PSPO II is usually expected to work well where several interests compete and product choices need structure. The focus is on judgment, communication, and the ability to shape direction with the Scrum Team.
Typical holder profile
PSPO II is common among experienced Product Owners, product managers working in Scrum, and business leads who own digital products. Many have already worked in cross-functional teams and now need a signal of deeper product ownership skill.
In Germany, this profile is especially relevant for companies running agile product teams in software, IT services, platform work, and transformation projects. The certificate can be useful for both remote collaboration and on-site work when strong stakeholder communication is needed in English or German.
Skills behind it
- Creating and refining a product vision
- Shaping the Product Backlog around value and risk
- Working with stakeholders without losing product focus
- Understanding Scrum roles, events, and accountability
- Using metrics and feedback to guide product decisions
PSPO II is not about memorizing a process. It is about knowing when to push for clarity, when to adapt, and how to keep the team focused on useful increments.
What companies get
When you engage a freelancer with PSPO II, you are usually getting someone who can step into product ownership work with less supervision. That can help when a roadmap is unclear, stakeholder pressure is high, or a team needs better backlog direction.
For hiring managers, the certification is a strong sign that the freelancer understands Scrum.org’s view of product ownership and can apply it in real product situations. It is a practical marker for projects where product decisions shape delivery success.
Before you hire
PSPO II is best for freelancers who can explain product choices, not just describe Scrum terms. Strong candidates will be able to talk about outcomes, discovery, prioritization, and how they work with developers, designers, and business stakeholders.
For companies in Germany, it is worth checking whether the freelancer has experience in your language of work, your product domain, and your expected level of stakeholder contact. That matters as much as the certificate itself when the role includes workshops, planning, and day-to-day product decisions.
Meet FRATCH Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II)
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.
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
Harald Schraut
Digital Marketing Product Owner, Project and Program Manager, Agile Coach and Scrum Master
Last position:
IT Product Owner – eCommerce – Mechanical Engineering at Self-employed
- Responsible for further developing the web shop with focus on stability, security, and scalability
- Support the business in creating and evaluating requirements
- Technology: SAP Commerce Cloud, Adobe Experience Manager CMS (AEM), Solr Search, Adyen Payment Service Provider
- Tools: Confluence, Jira, Miro, ServiceNow
Katrin Ohlig
Senior UX/UI Designer
Last position:
Senior UX/UI Designer at Schott
- Requirements analysis
- UX solutions for smart manufacturing
- UI design including documentation and development handoff according to MUI
- Usability testing
Finn Röder
PMO
Last position:
PMO at ebm papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
- Program governance support: assisted in maintaining planning and resource utilization, ensuring alignment with scope, quality, and timeline constraints
- Meeting and communication strategy: facilitated organization of steering committees, working groups, and all-hands meetings; prepared materials, created meeting minutes, and coordinated logistics
- Project reporting and coordination: collaborated with project managers on comprehensive project deliverable reports and ensured effective communication across all levels
- Deliverables oversight: monitored and controlled project deliverables to meet program requirements
- Change initiative coordination: supported assessment of change impacts on the integrated program management plan
- Project management certifications: trained in Prince2, IPMA, certified Scrum Master, and Product Owner
- Problem-solving: proactively identified and resolved issues efficiently
- Analytical and organizational skills: exhibited strong analytical abilities and exceptional organizational skills in structured and unstructured environments
Tony Stubenrauch
Interim Digital Excellence Manager
Last position:
Interim Digital Excellence Manager at AstraZeneca
- Digital & Omnichannel Lead: advising various brand teams on digital marketing strategies
- Product Owner for several indication areas to further develop an HCP web portal and multiple patient websites
- Development, management, execution, and optimization of (automated) personalized omnichannel campaigns along the customer journey and funnel
- Project management and leadership
- Monitoring & reporting of the respective measures
- Design, moderation, and facilitation of workshops (brand planning, digital strategy, team workshops, including brand, tech, medical, sales, legal)
- Management of external service providers and agencies
- Close collaboration in a cross-functional team with medical, brand, and sales teams, including field sales
Alexander Naumann
Transition Manager
Last position:
Transition Manager at Volkswagen AG
- Preparation, moderation and follow-up of project regular meetings and planning days
- Documentation and tracking of planning and iteration goals, risks and decisions
- Prequalification of issues and requirements
- Creation and updating of stream-specific master plans
- Setup, configuration and maintenance of project documentation in Confluence and SharePoint
- Maintenance, analysis and preparation of quantitative and qualitative project progress in Jira and Confluence dashboards
- Creation of a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Preparation of recommendations for action and weekly project status reports for management and committees
- Design of future-proof project structures in the context of concurrent SAFe transformation
Rolf Wendolsky
Agile Consultant
Last position:
Agile Consultant at Lead.ai
- Introduced Agile-CCPM in an IT project agency focused on PHP-based content management systems.
- Prepared and conducted workshops to establish an agency-wide multiproject management system.
- Coordinated and supported agency partners.
- Coached the methodological framework.
- Collected, analyzed, and used organizational metrics to plan the next steps.
- Environment: OKR, CCPM, agile coaching, agile planning, agile metrics, workshopping, facilitation, change management, JIRA, Zoom, Slack, Miro.
Marijn Scholtens
Cloud Solutions Architect or Senior Software Engineer
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Puls Security GmbH
Optimizing and acceleration of our Gitlab CI pipeline
Conceptual work for the PoC of the Zero Trust system
Extension of the policy-engine backend in Go
Extension of the policy-testing mechanism in Python
Architectural design of the PEP component of Zero Trust
Documentation of the product
Technologies: Zero Trust, Go, Python, Gitlab CI, Docker, JWT, Domain-Driven Design
Jonas Taulien
IT Consultant
Last position:
IT Consultant at Bechtle AG
- Prequalified 200 demands within five weeks on the multi-cloud-commerce platform bechtle-clouds.com with three external consultants
- Served a dual role as project manager and requirements engineer for various enhancements
- Domain topics: reimplementation of Entra ID Sync, improvement of support processes, optimizations in the product catalog
- Demand and project management in ServiceNow
- Refinement of epics and stories with internal teams and external service providers
- Management of the external international service provider
Abhilasha Sharma
Product, Software development, Product Owner, Scrum Maser, Agile Coach
Last position:
Advisory Board at Intersteller Consulting GmbH
- Holds an advisory role in this startup on providing guidance on use of AI in product management to use Jira AI
- Working on real-world applications of AI tools like ChatGPT, Visual Studio, Augment, and Synthesia to enhance product management and user communication
Srijan Manish
Senior Product Manager – Revenue Management
Last position:
Senior Product Manager – Revenue Management at SIXT SE
- Built and scaled a data-science price engine across 8 EU markets, lifting fleet margin by ~2% on a €1.5B+ base
- Launched a generative-AI insights platform in 29 countries, cutting manual analysis by ~40% and driving weekly actions
- Led a hybrid team and aligned 100+ stakeholders to refine pricing logic and accelerate rollout across regions
- Set up KPI governance with WBR/MBR rhythms, reducing decision latency by ~30% across European pricing teams
Florian Steiner
Technical Product Manager
Last position:
Technical Product Manager at Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
- Moderation of ideation and blueprinting workshops with Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts and Solution Architects to capture business requirements and to derive solution hypotheses for different value streams in the transformation project RAITT
- Documentation and refinement of requirements in MIRO, Confluence and Jira
- Reduced complexity of business requirements, invalidated the business value of features, resulting in a higher priority backlog
Alessandro Dönicke
Product Owner, Scrum Master & UX Design
Last position:
Product Owner, Scrum Master & UX Design at YouniQode GmbH
- Responsible for the strategic and operational management of digital agency projects with a focus on user-centered product development, agile team leadership, and continuous value delivery
- Introduced and scaled agile processes (Scrum & Kanban) across multiple client projects
- Developed user-centered B2B and B2C applications in close collaboration with stakeholders
- Successfully delivered MVPs with iterative enhancements based on validated user insights
- Technologies and methods: Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, Figma, UX Research, User Testing, Design Thinking, Agile Coaching, Backlog Management, Epic Breakdown, User Story Mapping, Prototyping, Roadmap Planning, Stakeholder Workshops, HTML/CSS, WordPress, Accessibility (WCAG), GDPR, OKRs, Product Discovery, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, UX KPIs
Marin Niehues
Project Management & Requirements Management | Leadership Consulting
Last position:
Project Management & Requirements Management | Leadership Consulting at Continental AG
- Project leadership of a cross-functional team of data scientists, software architects, and business stakeholders to develop a dynamic pricing model for the EMEA and US truck tire market
- Management consulting for applied analytics and AI, focusing on agile organizational strategy and designing a global strategy implementation based on agile frameworks with an emphasis on AI enablement
- Methods and technologies used: portfolio management, value stream mapping, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Flight Levels, lean management, OKRs, usability testing, acceptance tests, test management oversight
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Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) statistics
Typical experience
14 years
Average project duration
1.9 years
Certifications per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Manufacturing
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
94%
Master's degree or higher
53%
Doctorate
12%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II) validates advanced product ownership in Scrum. It shows that a freelancer can make product decisions, manage stakeholder expectations, and order work based on value rather than habit. It is a stronger signal than a basic introduction to Scrum because it reflects practical judgment in complex situations.
PSPO II goes beyond foundational Scrum knowledge. PSPO I is about core concepts and the Product Owner accountabilities, while PSPO II points to deeper experience with product strategy, trade-offs, and real-world decision-making. If you need someone to help shape direction, PSPO II is the more relevant signal.
Professional Scrum Product Owner II is a fit for experienced Product Owners, product managers, and business people who already work closely with Scrum Teams. It suits professionals who want to prove they can manage product value, not just keep a backlog updated. It is less useful for someone who is still learning the basics of Scrum.
Preparing for PSPO II usually means working through Scrum.org material, studying the Scrum Guide carefully, and reflecting on real product cases. Candidates should be able to explain why they chose a certain product approach and how they handled competing priorities. Practical experience matters more than memorizing terms.
There is no formal prerequisite for PSPO II. In practice, most people who succeed already have hands-on product ownership experience and a solid grasp of Scrum. That background helps because the exam expects applied thinking, not just theory.
PSPO II is one of Scrum.org’s certifications, and holders should keep their knowledge current as Scrum thinking and product practices evolve. Companies usually care less about the paperwork and more about whether the freelancer can still work effectively in modern Scrum product settings. It is wise to review current Scrum.org guidance before planning renewal or related learning.
PSPO II matters most in product-heavy work where priorities change often and stakeholder interests conflict. That includes software products, platform teams, digital transformation, and internal products with many users or sponsors. In Germany, it is especially useful when teams work across departments or need clear product ownership in distributed setups.
A freelancer holding PSPO II should be able to clarify product goals, shape the backlog, and support decisions with evidence. You can expect more than process knowledge; the person should help the team focus on outcomes and handle difficult product conversations. If the role is strategic or cross-functional, this certification is a strong sign.
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