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About the role
What they do
A Scrum Master helps the team work in a clear agile rhythm. They guide Scrum events, remove blockers, protect focus, and make sure the team can deliver without avoidable friction. In many companies, they also help product owners, developers, and stakeholders work from the same backlog and the same priorities.
Typical deliverables
- Sprint planning, daily stand-up, review, and retrospective facilitation
- Backlog refinement support and team-ready sprint input
- Impediment tracking and follow-up with the right people
- Team working agreements and transparent process rules
- Delivery flow improvements and retrospective action tracking
- Stakeholder updates that keep work visible and realistic
Core skills
A strong Scrum Master is calm, structured, and direct. They know how to ask the right questions, keep meetings short, and help teams solve process issues without taking over the work itself. Good communication matters as much as agile method knowledge.
- Scrum and agile coaching
- Facilitation in technical and cross-functional teams
- Conflict handling and clear moderation
- Backlog, sprint, and dependency management
- Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar tools
- Working with developers, product owners, and delivery leads
When companies hire one
Companies often bring in a freelance Scrum Master when a team is new to Scrum, a transformation needs extra support, or delivery has become messy. The role also helps when permanent hiring would take too long or when support is needed for a release, a reorganization, or a turnaround.
In Germany, this is common in software teams, IT departments, and larger product organizations that work with mixed on-site and remote teams. English is often enough in international setups, while German helps when the role sits close to local stakeholders.
What strong freelancers stand out on
The best Scrum Masters do more than run meetings. They spot patterns in blocked work, vague ownership, and overloaded sprints, then turn them into practical changes the team can use.
- They adapt to the team’s maturity instead of forcing theory
- They keep pressure out of the room while keeping delivery honest
- They work well with developers, product owners, and management
- They know when to coach, when to challenge, and when to stay out of the way
Common adjacent titles
Searchers may also look for agile coach, delivery manager, or, in some companies, project manager when they really need Scrum support. The label matters less than the actual work: facilitating Scrum, improving flow, and helping the team deliver with discipline.
This is especially true when a company needs help for a single product team, a scaling setup, or a temporary leadership gap.
Meet FRATCH Scrum Masters
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.
Marco Toscano
Scrum Master
Last position:
Scrum Master at Siemens Energy
- Responsible for introducing agile methods within the Interface & Integration Team (2 Scrum Teams)
- Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
- Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
- Removing impediments
- Increasing sprint performance
Emilian Naydenov
Agile Coach / Scrum Master
Last position:
Agile Coach / Scrum Master at Misumi Europe GmbH
- B2B e-commerce platform with self-service portal; support for existing systems and development of a new website (go-live 2025) with a focus on UX/UI, performance, and seamless data flow for tens of thousands of users
- Introduction of efficient Scrum ceremonies, standardized estimation methods, and Definition of Ready/Done
- Coaching of teams and Product Owners, promoting self-organization and continuous process optimization
- Structuring and administration of the Jira infrastructure at team and organization level
- Coordination with stakeholders, implementation of the rollout roadmap, and removal of blockers
- Building a feedback culture and optimizing meeting structures
- Results: +75% PI accuracy, doubling of team velocity
Sebastian Pauer
Scrum Master & Agile Coach
Last position:
Scrum Master & Agile Coach at HUK-Coburg
Goal: Coach a new agile team to implement and deliver the MVP of an AI-powered digital insurance service.
- Kicked off and coached a new cross-functional agile team as Scrum Master.
- Introduced a new Product Owner to the role with coaching, close collaboration and support with daily operations and backlog management in Jira.
- Facilitated the ideation, design and backlog creation process for the MVP, applying the appropriate tools and techniques (user journey mapping, impact mapping, story mapping, AI prototyping).
- Managed dependencies and impediments across multiple teams, resolving challenges rising from the use of both agile frameworks and traditional project management methodologies.
- Facilitated and supported planning and decision-making activities regarding the MVP delivery (roadmap creation, release planning, test management, translation of user feedback into product decisions)
- Continuously improved processes across multiple agile teams, closely collaborating with other Scrum Masters and cross-team roles (leads, architect, test manager).
- Designed and facilitated in-person and remote workshops as needed across multiple teams (agile practices, problem solving, process improvement, AI powered product development).
Benjamin Faas
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach
Last position:
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach at Freelance
Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.
Last projects:
Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.
Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.
Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.
Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.
Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:
Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.
Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.
Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.
Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.
Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:
Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.
Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.
Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.
Anshita Srivastava
Data & Analytics Professional
Last position:
Business Intelligence Developer and Data Analyst at Deloitte Consulting
Specialize in turning complex data from diverse environments into actionable business value through compelling visual storytelling. I am an expert in generating actionable insights and presenting recommendations to business stakeholders. My technical proficiency in SQL, Python, and leading data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI allows me to deliver a new generation of self-service tools and analytics services.
- Data Visualization & Storytelling: Created impactful data visualizations and dashboards in Tableau and Power BI, effectively communicating findings and presenting actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders and business leaders.
- Stakeholder Management: Built effective working relationships with key business stakeholders, data engineers, and other partners to achieve common data-driven goals and targets.
- Insights & Recommendations: Generated actionable insights from complex data analysis for funnel conversion, marketing performance, and ROI, directly influencing business performance and strategy.
- Data Collaboration & Empowerment: Worked closely with cross-functional teams to support the ongoing data needs of internal partners, helping to optimize internal data processes and workflows.
- BI & Data Expertise: Applied extensive experience in data modeling, data collection, data mining, and analysis to deliver end-to-end analytical solutions from stakeholder discovery to production.
Lasse Wagener
Managing Director | Agile Consultant | Scrum Master | Business Analyst
Last position:
Managing Director | Agile Consultant | Scrum Master | Business Analyst at Wagener Consulting GmbH
- Spearheaded the transformation of Telefonica Germany’s cloud journey into a self-service, automated marketplace by leading process analysis and design efforts; facilitated UX/UI collaboration and served as Scrum Master for cross-functional agile teams to ensure timely and quality delivery
- Designed, launched, and managed an enterprise-wide Learning & Development program focused on cloud-native skills, upskilling over 1,500 employees; undertook full vendor management including sourcing, tendering, contract negotiation, and ongoing partnership to ensure curriculum alignment with evolving organizational needs
- Implemented cloud migration processes aligned with corporate compliance and process governance; improved process transparency and audit readiness while reducing operational risks
- Architected and led a cross-divisional communication strategy to enhance organizational engagement; developed multiple channels including newsletters and intranet content, acting as single point of contact for all departmental communications to ensure consistency and alignment
Benjamin Schöttler
Consultant & Scrum Master
Last position:
Consultant & Scrum Master at DB InfraGO AG
- Conducting requirements analyses
- Facilitating Scrum workshops and meetings (Daily, Retrospective, and Review)
- Introducing and configuring Confluence
- Introducing and configuring Jira
- Conducting PI planning
- Scaling the framework
- Building the SAFE & Spotify structure
- Developing various approaches
Mert Bicer
Senior Test Manager ISTQB | Scrum Master | Business Analyst
Last position:
Freelancer at Freelancer
Consulting in testing
- Development and implementation of a test strategy for structured quality assurance
- Consulting on building and improving test processes
- Support in introducing QA standards
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
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.
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
Rainer Schulz
Scrum Master
Last position:
Product Owner at BWI
- The goal of the "DigSÜ" project is to digitize paper-based processes in the security clearance process to ensure faster processing of the files
- Managing the product backlog and creating user stories in close collaboration with stakeholders
- Building Scrum structures and supporting the development team
- Regular presentation of progress
Ferhat Göçer
Agile Master & Coach
Last position:
Agile Master & Coach at Insurance
- Conducting workshops and training sessions to actively support the newly started tribe (including Big Rooms)
- Supporting as a shared Agile Master to guide two product teams
- Teaching agile theory, practices and values to deepen agile understanding
- Coaching and mentoring internal Agile Masters in role development, ways of working and tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Initiating organizational improvements within the tribe to optimize processes and structures
- Participating in knowledge sharing and transfer within the cross-organizational agile community
Bernd Swillus
Scrum Master (Squad DZB1)
Last position:
Scrum Master (Squad DZB1) at DZ Bank Brokerage
- Supporting the team split, then Scrum Master for one of the teams
- Organizing and moderating Scrum and team meetings
- Co-preparing and moderating PI Planning (squad level) (mix of SAFe and Spotify)
- Promoting continuous improvement, self-organization, and communication
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Scrum Masters statistics
Typical experience
19 years
Average project duration
2.9 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, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
92%
Master's degree or higher
40%
Doctorate
5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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A Scrum Master helps the team work in a stable agile process. They facilitate Scrum events, remove blockers, and keep the backlog and sprint work transparent. The goal is simple: better flow, fewer interruptions, and a team that can deliver reliably.
Look for strong facilitation, clear communication, and real experience with Scrum in day-to-day delivery. A good Scrum Master can handle conflict, protect focus, and work comfortably with product owners and developers. Tool knowledge in Jira or Azure DevOps is useful, but method and people skills matter more.
Not exactly. An agile coach usually works more broadly on mindset, structure, and transformation across teams, while a project manager tends to own plan, scope, and coordination in a more traditional way. A Scrum Master is centered on the team’s Scrum flow, events, and continuous improvement.
A freelance Scrum Master makes sense when you need support quickly, for a limited period, or for a team that is changing fast. It is also a good choice for a recovery phase, a new product team, or a transformation where you do not yet know the long-term setup. You get focused help without a long hiring cycle.
Remote work is common for this role, especially in software and product teams. In Germany, many companies still want some on-site time for key workshops, stakeholder sessions, or team resets. Good remote Scrum Masters keep meetings tight, visible, and well prepared.
A strong Scrum Master improves the team’s actual way of working, not just the calendar. You should see clearer priorities, fewer repeated blockers, better retrospectives, and more honest delivery discussions. Ask for examples of process problems they solved and what changed afterward.
Most work with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar planning tools. They also use simple facilitation methods, boards, and action tracking to keep work visible. The exact tool matters less than whether they can make the team use it well.
Teams building software, digital products, or internal IT services often need a Scrum Master when work becomes hard to coordinate. It is especially useful in organizations with several stakeholders, changing priorities, or mixed seniority in the team. If delivery feels blocked by process, this role usually helps fast.
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