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Support agile transformation, team coaching, and Scrum or Kanban delivery. Get help with scaling practices, leadership coaching, and workshop facilitation. Fast, precise matching with vetted, available freelancers.
About the role
What they do
An Agile Coach helps teams, leaders, and product groups work in a more disciplined way. The focus is not theory. It is better flow, clearer roles, stronger collaboration, and habits that make delivery more reliable.
- Coach Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid ways of working
- Facilitate planning, retrospectives, reviews, and workshops
- Support product owners, team leads, and managers
- Remove blockers in process, collaboration, and decision-making
- Improve delivery rhythm across one team or several teams
Core skills
A strong Agile Coach knows how to read team dynamics, ask the right questions, and challenge weak routines without creating noise. They can work with delivery teams and with leadership, which is often what separates coaching from simple facilitation.
Key skills include:
- Clear coaching and facilitation style
- Deep knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and agile operating models
- Experience with conflict handling and stakeholder alignment
- Ability to work with product, engineering, and business teams
- Practical training design for workshops and enablement
Tools and methods
Many projects need an agile transformation coach, not just a Scrum Master. That can include mapping current workflows, setting team working agreements, improving backlog refinement, or helping a scaled setup stay consistent.
Common methods and tools include:
- Scrum events and Kanban practices
- Team health checks and maturity assessments
- Retrospectives, story mapping, and working agreement design
- Jira, Confluence, Miro, or similar collaboration tools
- Coaching sessions for managers and delivery leads
When companies bring one in
Companies usually hire an Agile Coach when delivery feels slow, teams work in silos, or a transformation has lost momentum. In Munich, this often comes up in software, mobility, industrial tech, and corporate IT settings where multiple teams must work together and adapt fast.
A freelance setup makes sense when the need is specific: support for a transition, a difficult team reset, or extra help during growth. It also works well when a company wants outside perspective without adding a permanent role too early.
What strong coaches deliver
Strong professionals do more than run ceremonies. They leave teams with better habits, clearer ownership, and fewer recurring process problems.
- A coaching plan tied to the real business problem
- Better team collaboration and meeting discipline
- Clear recommendations for leadership and delivery flow
- Practical enablement that teams can keep using
- A clean handover when the engagement ends
Signs you need one
If your teams keep missing handoffs, struggle with prioritization, or cannot agree on how to work, an Agile Coach can help. The same is true when a Scrum Master role is too narrow and the company needs broader support across several teams or managers.
A good freelancer is calm, direct, and observant. They can work on-site in Munich when workshops or leadership sessions need it, and remote when the job is mainly coaching, follow-up, and alignment.
Meet FRATCH Agile Coaches
Erjola Jürgens
Agile Coach & Scrum Master · AI Product Builder
Last position:
Technical Founder & AI Product Builder at LolaNext
- Build an AI product end-to-end, hands-on across the full delivery cycle so I stay current on how software teams actually work: modern development, CI/CD, and shipping to production.
André Ullmann
RTE / Agile Coach / Full SAFe Consultant
Last position:
RTE / Agile Coach / Full SAFe Consultant at Siemens Energy
- RTE/Agile Coach for the SAFe 6 (Scaled Agile Framework) rollout
- Building and establishing a LACE (Lean-Agile Center of Excellence) for several ARTs
- Using the tools: Azure DevOps with SCALE, Loop, MS Whiteboard
- Building the ART with 7 teams
- Training Product Owners, e.g. through SAFe POPM training and LearnSnacks
- Running the initial PI Planning as a Kickoff Planning Event
- Introducing a demand process
Philipp Gasteiger
Project Manager & Agile Coach
Last position:
Founder at Online Start-Up
Founded the first online start-up with projects around regional online portals, e-commerce and price comparison while still studying.
Grew the start-up into successful companies.
Ila Bhardwaj
Senior Agile Coach/Principal Consultant
Last position:
Senior Agile Coach/Principal Consultant at Expleo Technology Germany GmbH
- Led agile transformation programmes that reduced delivery cycles by 20% and significantly increased adaptability of distributed ARTs.
- Guided leadership and teams in establishing self-organization, psychological safety and continuous improvement, resulting in higher team satisfaction.
- Moderated PI planning and Inspect & Adapt workshops to ensure transparent and aligned collaboration across nine teams.
- Built high-performing cross-functional teams and supported their skills development and trust-building.
- Linked agile transformation with intercultural team development to enable more effective collaboration among globally distributed teams and dismantle cultural barriers.
- Advised executive leadership on fostering diversity and inclusive corporate culture through targeted diversity workshops.
- Led two project teams (each with 11 developers and 2 testers) focusing on delivery excellence and high team autonomy.
- Conducted SAFe and Scrum training for over 60 staff members, achieving a 90% success rate in certifications.
David Cole
Scrum Master, Agile Coach
Last position:
Scrum Master, Agile Coach at Steadforce
Agile coaching at BMW – 8 coaching projects
Advised BMW department on introducing agile software development
Coaching product owners, Scrum Masters, managers and teams
Trainer for product owner workshops
Consulting firm project (Jan 2017 to present): Steadforce was the main partner in developing products that consultants used on client sites
As Scrum Master, supported scaling the project from six developers to three distributed Scrum teams with developers in Germany, Poland, Romania and Ukraine as well as stakeholders in Germany, US and India
Agile values evangelist
Organizing Scrum meetings
Facilitating retrospectives
Co-organizing team workshops
Working on code quality and test coverage for almost daily releases
UMS at BMW (Sept 2016 to present): Scrum Master for a team of 3 software developers
Organizing Scrum meetings and collaborating in Jira with the product owner at the client for agile fixed-price billing (payment based on t-shirt sizing)
Steadforce Campus: Redefining software development processes at Steadforce with a focus on clean code, code reviews and Scrum
Neli Georgieva
PMO Lead, Scrum Master, Agile Coach,
Last position:
Cohort Participant at Founder Institute
- Customer discovery and product-market fit validation for an AI tutoring platform
- MVP experiments: customer interviews, landing page tests
- Entrepreneurship training: product-market fit, go-to-market strategy
Mike Lie
Agile Coach / Scrum Master
Last position:
Agile Coach / Scrum Master at Landesamt für Digitalisierung, Breitband und Vermessung
- Agile Coach and Scrum Master in the Baykom project
- Coaching the PO and the team
- Reorganization of previous processes with noticeable performance improvement (no statistics yet due to the few sprints, only feedback from the team and from the PO with their supervisor)
Kai Gausmann
Owner, Senior Agile Coach
Last position:
Owner, Senior Agile Coach at Kai Gausmann Consulting & Coaching
Reynoud Foppen
Agile Coach Scrum Master
Last position:
Agile Coach Scrum Master at Atruvia AG
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Agile Coaches statistics
Typical experience
25 years
Average project duration
2.9 years
Certifications per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Automotive
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
71%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Questions in mind? Get key insights about FRATCH
An Agile Coach helps teams and leaders improve how they plan, collaborate, and deliver. The work often includes coaching, workshop facilitation, and support for Scrum, Kanban, or broader agile change. The goal is not just better meetings, but better day-to-day execution.
Hire an Agile Coach when the challenge goes beyond one team’s ceremonies. If several teams, managers, or product areas need alignment, coaching, and process change, the broader role fits better. A Scrum Master is often closer to one team; an Agile Coach works across the system.
Look for strong facilitation, coaching skill, and real delivery experience. A good coach knows Scrum and Kanban, but also understands team dynamics, stakeholder conflict, and how product and engineering decisions affect flow. They should be able to guide without taking over.
Freelance Agile Coaches are a good fit for transformations, team resets, leadership coaching, and support during growth. They are also useful when a company needs outside perspective for a limited period or wants help with a specific change initiative. This is common in fast-moving tech and enterprise environments in Munich.
Many parts of the work can be done remotely, especially coaching sessions, follow-up, and preparation. On-site time helps when the job includes workshops, observing team behavior, or working closely with leadership. The right setup usually mixes both, depending on the situation.
A strong Agile Coach can explain what changed, why it changed, and how they helped teams sustain it. Ask for examples of tough situations, not just training topics. Good signs are clear thinking, calm communication, and practical outcomes that teams still use after the engagement.
The terms are often used in similar ways, but there is a small difference in emphasis. An agile transformation coach usually works more on organization-wide change, while an Agile Coach may focus more on teams, leaders, or a mix of both. In many companies, the titles overlap.
In Munich, companies often use a freelancer for short-term support in software, mobility, industrial, or corporate IT settings. Expect someone who can work with English-language teams and adapt to German-speaking stakeholders if needed. The best match will be clear about on-site needs, remote follow-up, and the scope they can cover.
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