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Support for Scrum adoption, team facilitation, OKR alignment, and delivery flow improvements. Ideal for product teams, scale-up transformations, and leadership coaching. Get fast, precise matching with vetted, available freelancers.
About the role
Team flow
An Agile Coach helps teams work with more clarity, better cadence, and fewer blockers. The focus is not theory. It is day-to-day improvement in how teams plan, collaborate, inspect, and adapt.
- Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid ways of working
- Sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Team health, feedback loops, and continuous improvement
- Coaching for product, engineering, and leadership teams
Typical outcomes
A strong Agile Coach does more than run workshops. They spot friction in delivery, improve team rituals, and help people make decisions faster. In practice, that can mean guiding a new Scrum setup, easing a scaling transition, or helping an overloaded team regain focus.
Common deliverables include:
- Team assessments and coaching plans
- Facilitation of ceremonies and working sessions
- Agile ways of working for cross-functional teams
- Change support for managers and key stakeholders
Skills and tools
The best freelance Agile Coaches combine coaching skill with practical delivery experience. They know when to ask questions, when to challenge habits, and when to make the next step obvious.
- Strong command of Scrum, Kanban, and agile facilitation
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Miro, or similar tools
- Clear communication with developers, product owners, and managers
- Ability to work with conflict, resistance, and change
- Good judgement on when process helps and when it gets in the way
When companies hire one
Companies usually bring in an Agile Coach when teams grow fast, delivery slows down, or old habits start blocking progress. It also helps when a transformation needs a neutral outside view.
In Vienna, this role often fits product companies, enterprise IT teams, and organizations with mixed local and international stakeholders. Some clients need on-site workshops. Others want remote coaching with occasional presence in Vienna for leadership sessions or team resets.
What strong coaches show
A good Agile Coach does not push a fixed model on every team. They adapt to context, protect focus, and leave the team more capable than before.
They usually:
- build trust quickly without taking over
- make problems visible without blame
- improve delivery habits in a practical way
- coach both teams and leaders
- keep changes small, clear, and sustainable
Hiring signals
You may need this role if stand-ups are routine but not useful, planning is noisy, or retrospectives lead nowhere. Another sign is when teams use agile words but still struggle with ownership, flow, or priorities.
A freelance Agile Coach is a good fit when you need focused support for a specific change, a temporary gap, or a team reset. For many organizations, that is faster and more precise than a permanent hire.
Meet FRATCH Agile Coaches
Marko Agrez
Agile Transformation Coach | Program Lead | Scaling Engineering Organizations
Last position:
Program Lead | Agile Transformation Coach at EnBW
- Steering and supporting the organization in introducing Scrum and a quarterly roadmap and portfolio planning approach at program level inspired by the SAFe framework.
- Servant leadership for Scrum teams and managers to achieve quarterly goals and measurably increase value delivery for internal and external customers.
- Design and expansion of efficient communication and collaboration structures between multiple development teams and key stakeholders across the organization.
- Facilitation and professional moderation of cross-functional workshops and management meetings to align on shared goals.
- Coaching managers, Product Owners, and development teams on agile values, role understanding, and scaled ways of working (Scrum, SAFe, Business Agility).
- Removal of structural blockers at team and organizational level through targeted impediment management and escalation processes.
- Enabling teams to become more self-organized, accountable, and end-to-end responsible along the value streams.
- Individual coaching of key people (Product Owners, Chapter Leads, Scrum Masters) to strengthen their effectiveness in the transformation program.
- Organization-wide identification, planning, and implementation of process, structure, and tool improvements to sustainably increase efficiency, throughput, and value creation.
- Close support for Product Owners in stakeholder management, prioritization by business value, product strategy, roadmap planning, and effective collaboration with development teams.
- Introduction, governance, and scaling of Azure DevOps as the central project and product management tool, including coaching the organization in usage, reporting, and alignment at all levels.
Achievements:
- Clear increase in the visibility, transparency, and perceived value delivery of the development teams within the overall organization.
- Noticeable improvement in communication between development, business, and other stakeholders.
- Optimization of work processes, workflows, and backlog structures, which reduced lead times, sharpened priorities, and sustainably increased team effectiveness.
Tomas Jiskra
Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery
Last position:
Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery at BRZ - Federal Computing Center (Federal Ministry of Finance)
- Deputy project manager for one of the largest projects in the Customs Union Code program, CEIS CDA for the Federal Ministry of Finance
- Budget planning and control
- Negotiations and ongoing communication with all relevant stakeholders
- Risk identification and assessment, and development of risk mitigation strategies
- Creation and implementation of action strategies to achieve project goals
- Efficient resource planning and allocation to support project requirements
- Managing the release process using agile methods and coordinating sprints for analysis, development, and testing phases
- Process optimizations and regular reporting for progress monitoring and decision making
Thomas Becker
Programme Manager, Turnaround Projects
Last position:
Agile Coach, Scrum-Master at ÖBB (Infra)
- Challenge: poor project results and team performance, very poor work environment
- Solution: introduction of agile planning processes, teaching agile principles within the SAFe framework
- Innovation: consistent use of agile methods; introduction of requirements engineering, story writing
- Leadership: interface with the board, program management Opel Europe, GM USA and international markets
- Result: most productive team in the ART; increased planning accuracy to over 85%
- Team size: 10
Volkmar Travnicek
UX Manager - Project Manager - Business Analyst – Requirements Engineer – SAFe Consultant
Last position:
Consultant | Business Analyst – Requirements Engineer – Agile Coach - Designer at ÖBB BCC
- Redesign of system error messages for Jira & Confluence
- Evaluation and implementation of new system extensions
- Analysis and design of new business processes with UX expertise
- Support for the implementation of SAFe
Oliver Perner
Enterprise Agile Coach, Flight Levels Coach, Product Manager, Innovation Consultant
Last position:
Enterprise Agile Consultant, Coach & Trainer, Product Manager at building BRIDGES – Enterprise Agility
Reinhard Kraus
Agile Coach | Managing Consultant
Last position:
Self-employed
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist, Scaled Agile Inc.
- ICP – Agile Project and Delivery Management, ICAgile
- Management consultant and agile coach for agile organizations
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Agile Coaches statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
3.2 years
Positions per freelancer
8
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Telecommunication
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
100%
Certifications per freelancer
10
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
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Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
Need clarity? Check out our simple overview of FRATCH
A Agile Coach helps teams improve how they plan, deliver, and work together. That can include coaching Scrum teams, improving Kanban flow, supporting leadership, and making meetings more useful. The role is practical: remove friction, build better habits, and help the team keep improving without constant external support.
Look for strong facilitation, clear communication, and real delivery experience. A solid coach knows Scrum and Kanban, can work with product and engineering teams, and handles resistance without creating more noise. Good coaches also understand when to change a process and when to leave it alone.
A Scrum Master usually supports one team and keeps Scrum working day to day. An Agile Coach works at a broader level: across teams, managers, and sometimes the whole organization. A project manager focuses more on scope, timeline, and coordination, while the coach focuses on behavior, flow, and ways of working.
A freelancer is often the better choice when you need help for a specific transformation, a team reset, or a temporary gap in capability. It also makes sense when the issue is urgent and you want an outside perspective quickly. If the need is ongoing and deeply embedded in daily operations, a permanent hire may fit better.
Many coaching tasks work well remotely, including leadership sessions, team coaching, and process design. On-site time in Vienna can be useful for workshops, conflict-heavy situations, or when trust needs to be built quickly across several stakeholders. A good setup often combines both.
Ask for examples of real change, not just framework knowledge. A strong Agile Coach can explain what they improved, how they handled resistance, and how they made teams more self-sufficient. Look for practical language, careful diagnosis, and a coaching style that fits your culture.
In Vienna, the role often comes up in product companies, software teams, and larger organizations going through change. It is also useful where local teams work with international stakeholders and need clearer coordination. The best fit is usually a company that wants better delivery flow, not just more process.
A freelance Agile Coach should be ready to assess the current setup fast, align with leadership, and work with teams that may be skeptical or overloaded. The job often starts with interviews, observation, and a clear coaching plan. Flexibility matters, because each company needs a different mix of facilitation, mentoring, and change support.
The average hourly rate for Agile Coaches in Vienna is 117 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 933 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Agile Coaches in Vienna, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 100% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers working as Agile Coaches in Vienna have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Agile Coaches in Vienna are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (33%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Agile Coaches in Vienna are Information Technology (67%), Professional Services (67%), and Telecommunication (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Agile Coaches in Vienna are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (100%), and Product Development (67%).
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