Nobody in agile coaching talks about this openly, because nobody wants to admit that the model is broken. But the maths have never worked.
A senior enterprise agile coach typically supports six to ten teams. At forty hours a week — before email, admin, and travel — that's four to six hours per team. Enough for Agile Event facilitation, perhaps. Nowhere near enough to monitor health signals, analyse data, prepare briefs, track action completion, identify patterns across teams, and actually develop team capability over time.
McKinsey estimates the average coach supports 7.3 teams. The maths produces approximately 5.5 hours per team per week. This is not a coaching engagement. It's a Agile Event management service with coaching vocabulary.
"You can't do deep coaching work when you're always in triage mode. And at six-plus teams, you're always in triage mode."Performalise Research · Coaching at Scale
What Albert AI changes
Albert AI monitors all teams continuously. It tracks Agile Event quality, health signals, retro action completion, and throughput patterns without requiring coach time. It prepares Agile Event briefs that surface the three most important things to address in each session, based on the last three sprints of data. It flags anomalies before they become crises.
This gives the coach back the hours they were spending on monitoring and preparation — and redirects those hours toward the work only humans can do: building trust, navigating conflict, developing people. A coach who can meaningfully support twelve teams rather than six, with better outcomes across all twelve. The maths finally work.