Scrum Masters in Munich
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Marco Toscano
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
Erjola Jürgens
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.
Ferhat Göçer
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
Marc Esser
Last position:
Scrum Master for Agile Transformation and Team Development - DevOps & Cloud Adoption at IT Business Unit of Leading European OEM
- Guided a large-scale agile transformation, improving team agility, DevOps adoption, and cloud readiness.
- Supported DevOps & CI/CD practices to optimize cloud deployment strategies and reduce time-to-market.
- Led agile coaching initiatives to enhance cross-functional collaboration between IT and business teams.
- designed agile governance structures to align executive leadership with cloud and digital transformation goals.
- Technologies & Frameworks: Agile (Scrum, SAFe), DevOps, Cloud Adoption, IT Governance, CI/CD, Change Management
Doreen Hoyer
Last position:
Senior Consultant / Agile Project Manager (Scrum Master) at Greenlight Consulting GmbH
- Guiding and coaching clients in introducing agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) to optimize processes and team collaboration
- Ensuring the continuous development of agile collaboration models and the agile mindset through targeted measures and retrospectives
- Introducing KPIs to measure team velocity, quality of user stories, and deliverables for data-driven project management
- Designing and implementing dashboards for real-time transparency of work processes
- Removing operational impediments and representing the team's interests to ensure a smooth workflow
- Designing and implementing efficient risk and requirements management processes to identify bottlenecks early
- Building and maintaining internal knowledge platforms (blog, newsletter, internal academy) for sustainable information retention and sharing
- Preparing, facilitating, and conducting agile meetings/workshops (retrospectives, reviews, refinements) for continuous improvement of collaboration
- Serving as the interface between business and IT departments to align agile initiatives with strategic goals
- Mentoring new employees and conducting training on agile best practices, especially Jira and Confluence
- Leading the internal AI initiative to explore AI-driven process automations
Michael Boldasov
Last position:
Scrum Master, Project Manager at GP Solutions DMCC
- Participated in the Riyadh Public Transport (KAPT) project introducing public transportation in Riyadh, supporting multimodal journeys combining bus, metro, car on demand.
- Worked via Thiqah and partnered with Andersen to refactor the mobile MaaS application DARB into a new microservices architecture under SCRUM framework, successfully completing Phase 1.
- Facilitated a team of 40 developers across Android, iOS, Web, Java, DevOps, architecture, analysis, and QA.
- Moderated Scrum events and communicated with the client, proactively reporting on project deadlines, scope, and challenges.
- Coordinated cross-team efforts between Thiqah specialists and GPS development teams, managing Jira and Azure DevOps trackers.
- Supported and improved Scrum processes throughout the project.
- Due to Thiqah’s takeover by Elm, subsequent phases were handled entirely in Saudi Arabia with GPS providing IT consulting.
- Tools: Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Draw.IO, ChatGPT
Neli Georgieva
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
David Cole
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
Thomas Guttsche
Last position:
Test Manager, SAP + STIBO at Cyberport SE
Participated in the rollout of an auto-pricing setup; coordinated and executed tests for pricing microservices, SAP ERP, and STIBO; analyzed and resolved defects related to pricing and product data.
Developed and implemented over 100 precise test cases to accurately assess software functionality, increasing test coverage by 40%.
Created detailed test plans and conducted more than 50 system integration tests (SITs) to ensure smooth integration between SAP and STIBO systems, reducing integration issues by 25%.
Continuously monitored test progress and reported using Jira and Confluence, ensuring transparency and early identification of potential issues, which led to a 20% reduction in critical defects.
Identified, documented, and tracked over 200 software defects to support issue resolution and quality assurance, improving system stability by 30%.
Mike Lie
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)
Thomas Czech
Last position:
External Consultant to Program Management / SCRUM Master at MVV Energie AG / Soluvia IT Services GmbH
Streamline – implementation of S/4 HANA Utilities in cooperation with Accenture
Consulting and coaching of program management (OPL)
Planning and support in executing all organizational and system technical activities to migrate from SAP IS-U to SAP S/4 HANA Utilities
Communication and coordination with involved stakeholders and committees (core team, program management, steering committee)
Project and process management
Coaching of the stream leads in the main project
Requirements management for interface connection of ancillary systems (non-SAP systems)
Risk management
Resource and capacity planning
Consulting the existing migration, test, interface/ancillary system, and training teams
Consulting on managing the SAP systems cut-over
Planning and management including necessary post-migration activities (e.g., verification, documentation, adjustments)
Team coaching & servant leadership: supporting one or more Scrum teams as coach, facilitator, and servant leader
Promoting self-organization, personal responsibility, and continuous improvement
Facilitation and continuous improvement of Scrum events (daily, planning, review, retrospective)
Ensuring adherence to Scrum values, principles, and practices
Identifying and actively managing impediments to ensure team productivity
Working with product owners, agile coaches, and leaders to resolve structural hurdles
Supporting agile scaling in frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Nexus
Co-designing agile transitions as part of MVV's digital strategy
Building an agile mindset in the organization through training, workshops, and active role modeling of agile principles
Collaborating with other Scrum Masters and agile coaches in the company-wide agile chapter
IT systems: ERP: SAP IS-U, SAP S/4 HANA Utilities
Marc Lustig
Last position:
Senior Scrum Master at Federal Central Tax Office
- Promoted a leadership culture
- Built structures for agile teams
- Trained mindset for a product-centric way of working
- Established a Definition of Done
- Anchored team responsibility
- Used ConceptBoard as a tool for workshops, retrospectives, and training
Marius Huianu
Last position:
Senior Project Manager / SAFe Solution & Release Train Engineer (Lead Scrum Master) at Telefonica O2
- Led the largest agile project at Telefonica O2 (€21+ million, 11 Scrum & system teams in Germany and India, 80+ developers, 3 vendors) using SAFe, Scrum and Kanban. A showcase project at Telefonica for agile scaling.
- Scaled agile processes to a large project using SAFe.
- Delivered the project at half the cost and time compared to similar projects.
- Test management / coordination of system testing.
- Coached teams (SAFe & Scrum).
- Rollout planning/management.
Antonio Enea Marraffa
Last position:
Senior PO/PM/Agile Master for AI/NLP/ML Products at Freelancer
- PO/PM for digital products such as Search, Recommendations and AI (IR/ML) related projects, Knowledge and Document Management Systems, search with LLMs, RAG and Knowledge Graph
- Agile evangelist helping people, teams and organizations work in agile ways
Reynoud Foppen
Last position:
Agile Coach Scrum Master at Atruvia AG
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Scrum Masters statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years (Germany: 20 years)
Position duration
3.1 years (Germany: 2.4 years)
Positions per freelancer
12 (Germany: 11)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 93%)
Master's degree or higher
60% (Germany: 43%)
Doctorate
10% (Germany: 6%)
Certifications per freelancer
6 (Germany: 5)
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 96%)
Based on our profile pool as of 26 Aug 2026.
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Average rates for Scrum Masters in Munich
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About the role
Agile delivery
A Scrum Master keeps the team focused on flow, clarity, and continuous improvement. The role removes blockers, protects the sprint goal, and makes sure the team uses Scrum in a practical way instead of following ceremonies by habit.
Typical deliverables include:
- Sprint planning, daily Scrum, review, and retrospective facilitation
- Backlog refinement support and clear definition of done
- Impediment tracking and follow-up with stakeholders
- Team working agreements and ways of working
Where they help
Companies bring in a Scrum Master when delivery is stuck, agile teams are growing, or product work needs more structure. This is common in software teams, digital product groups, and transformation projects where Product Owners, developers, testers, and business teams need one clear rhythm.
In Munich, the role often fits organizations in enterprise IT, mobility, insurance, manufacturing, and consulting. Freelance support is useful when a team needs immediate coverage, a neutral outside perspective, or help during a change in team setup.
Core skills
A strong Scrum Master is calm, observant, and direct. They need to read team dynamics, ask sharp questions, and turn vague blockers into concrete next steps. Good facilitation matters, but so does coaching: the best professionals help a team solve problems on its own.
Checklist of what matters:
- Deep understanding of Scrum and agile delivery
- Confident facilitation in English and often German in Munich settings
- Experience with conflict handling and stakeholder alignment
- Ability to coach, challenge, and keep momentum
Tools and methods
Scrum Masters usually work with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Miro, or similar tools used for planning and documentation. They track dependencies, make work visible, and keep meetings useful. In more complex setups, they also coordinate with multiple teams, release trains, or scaled agile structures.
Depending on the project, companies may look for someone who has worked in software development, platform teams, or hybrid business and IT environments. Strong candidates adapt their style to the team, not the other way around.
What good looks like
A strong freelancer does not just run meetings. They improve decision-making, reduce friction, and create clear ownership. They know when to stay in the background and when to step in.
Look for signs such as:
- Clear, concise communication
- Practical coaching instead of process theater
- Stable follow-through on blockers and dependencies
- Respect from both delivery teams and business stakeholders
Freelance fit
Freelance Scrum Masters are a good fit when a company needs speed, specific project experience, or temporary leadership for an agile team. They are also useful when an internal hire would take too long or when the team needs help only for a transition period.
Remote work is common, but on-site presence can help in workshops, team resets, or stakeholder-heavy environments. In Munich, many clients expect a mix of English and German depending on the team and the wider organization.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Scrum Masters.
A Scrum Master keeps the team moving in a clear Scrum cadence and helps remove blockers that slow delivery. They facilitate key meetings, support the Product Owner, and coach the team on working better together. On a freelance project, they often step in quickly, stabilize delivery, and leave the team stronger than before.
Look for strong facilitation, conflict handling, and a real understanding of agile delivery. A good Scrum Master can guide planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives without turning them into empty routines. Experience in software or product teams helps, especially when the work involves cross-functional stakeholders.
A Scrum Master focuses on one or a few teams and helps them work effectively within Scrum. An Agile Coach usually works at a broader level, shaping mindsets and practices across teams or the organization. A Project Manager is more likely to own scope, timelines, and reporting, while the Scrum Master protects team flow and process health.
A freelance Scrum Master makes sense when you need support fast, for a defined period, or for a specific change effort. It is also a good choice when a team is new to Scrum, delivery is unstable, or a permanent hire would take too long. Companies often use freelancers to cover leave, support a new team, or guide a transition.
The role can be done remotely, especially when the team already works well online and uses solid collaboration tools. On-site work helps during team resets, workshops, or stakeholder-heavy phases where direct interaction is useful. In Munich, many clients prefer a hybrid setup and may expect some German in day-to-day coordination.
A Scrum Master should create visible, practical outcomes, not just attend meetings. Expect clear sprint ceremonies, improved backlog flow, issue tracking, and regular team feedback loops. In stronger engagements, you also see better ownership, fewer recurring blockers, and more stable delivery habits.
Judge the person by how the team works after they join. A strong Scrum Master makes meetings sharper, blockers clearer, and collaboration easier without taking control away from the team. Ask for examples of difficult team situations, how they handled conflict, and what changed in delivery afterward.
A Scrum Master working in Munich should be ready for mixed environments: local teams, international stakeholders, and different levels of agile maturity. German can be important in some organizations, but English is often enough in product and IT teams. Freelancers should also be comfortable working with enterprise tools and adapting to hybrid routines.
The average hourly rate for Scrum Masters in Munich is 117 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 933 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Scrum Masters in Munich, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 60% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as Scrum Masters in Munich have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Scrum Masters in Munich are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (29%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Scrum Masters in Munich are Information Technology (88%), Professional Services (71%), and Manufacturing (59%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Scrum Masters in Munich are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (100%), and Product Development (76%).
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