AI vs. Real People—Helping Teams Avoid Information Overload | Havva Sevay

Havva Sevay: AI vs. Real People—Helping Teams Avoid Information Overload

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"It's still a tool. It can make mistakes, it can hallucinate. People don't really question it—and that's the danger." - Havva Sevay

 

This week's coaching conversation tackles a challenge Havva—and many Scrum Masters—are living right now: AI vs. real people. For some, AI is a useful tool; for others, it's a magic oracle that solves everything and makes people replaceable. Havva sees the real risk in teams that accept AI's confident answers without double-checking, and in leaders who use AI to generate massive documents and dump them on teams as finished decisions. Vasco pushes the conversation into the practical: when a flood of AI-generated information, requirements, and tool changes lands on a busy team, how do you help them cope? Havva's answer is to step back and ask the human questions first— what is the epic? what does the stakeholder actually want? what do we really need right now? Then she pulls out a deliberately low-tech move: forget AI for one second. Her team uses the Eisenhower matrix manually to separate what's important now from what can wait. AI is a great tool—but the filtering of what matters is still human work.

 

Self-reflection Question: When AI floods your team with information and options, what is your practice for helping them separate what matters now from the noise?

 

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