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СпутникиРНSpaceXРоскосмосNASAIn my last article I highlighted about cognitive debt and how it can impact the team. This article I share a possible way to payback the cognitive debt.AI can't replace the human factor which is expected from the Scrum Master. However, because of the misconceptions spread across industry, AI is doing something more dangerous. AI is picking up the repetitive, mundane work like team reports, stakeholder dashboards, retrospective analysis (which has nothing to do with Scrum Master but often falls in their basket) and making it automated and easier for anyone to 'function' as Scrum Master without actually building the real competency needed to be successful as Scrum Master. The teams who rely on AI-generated insights without questioning them are not becoming smarter. They are accumulating cognitive debt.As a Scrum Master, this matters to us a lot. The accountability has never been about facilitatign events. It has always been about sensing what a team cannot see, asking questions tools cannot generate, and building the kind of trust that no algorithm can simulate; in order to make the team effective.So when your team is drowning in the cognitive debt generated by AI, how do you still make them effective? Well, there possibly is a way - AGES. AGES ModelAGES is a neuroscience-backed framework that describes the four conditions the human brain needs to truly encode and retain new knowledge. I first came across this model in 2021 when I completed my Brain Based Conversation Skills Training with NeuroLeadership Institute, India. The model describes the four states as:Attention. Generation. Emotion. Spacing.In an AI-driven world, each of these is under siege. And for Scrum Masters, each represents both a personal learning imperative and a team leadership responsibility.Attention: Get the teams focusAI probably creates a lot of distraction then helping the team. Every time you write the code with co-pilot enabled it keeps popping suggestions, the moment you end a zoom or teams meeting an AI generated summary is ready for your consumption. This all at times could be too much for a team with limited cognitive bandwidth.Cognitive debt begins here. When attention is fragmented by default, shallow processing becomes the norm. People attend meetings without being present. They read AI summaries instead of engaging with the underlying reality.A Scrum Master’s job is to design for presence. As a facilitator, Scrum Master has to make the events engaging, even more than before, to foster deliberate participation and intentional discussion. Generation: Adults learns by doing (mostly)This is where cognitive debt compounds fastest.When your team relies on AI-generated sprint plans, velocity forecasts, and impediment logs without questioning, challenging, or building on them, they are outsourcing their thinking. The mental muscles that once produced those insights quietly wean away.Scrum Master now needs to figure out how to help the team, not to jump on conclusions with AI data but challenge it. Scrum Masters now have to instill back the Empiricism and Scrum Values in the team with more rigor. Scrum Master now needs to coach that AI inputs can be used to get started or diverge on ideas but real solutions will only come from the team as they work the problems. A Scrum Team that generates hypotheses, runs their experiments is the team that will evolve strategically to add value, others might be lost in AI oblivion.Emotion: Feelings nurture learningThrough neuroscience it is well established that emotional connect creates long term memory. When team members have passionate conversations over ideas; when they disagree and challenge implementations; it feeds there understanding and the emotions generated in those moments help them retain those concepts for longer.But when team starts consuming AI generated output without question, all those discussions, they take a backseat and consensus, it is not arrived at, it is simply accepted.Scrum Masters now need to create the environment where emotions get a chance, meaning can be created through discussion of divergent ideas and conflicts are not ignored but used as ways to create hyper engaged teams.The human ability of Scrum Master to drive psychological safety for shared purpose is what becomes more important in AI driven world.Spacing: Deliberate and consistent practiceOne time event, one time emotional discussion, one passionate argument is never enough. The last aspect of AGES model is spacing. Spacing establishes that genuine competence only comes through spaced learning. Going over and over the same concepts, applying them regularly and reflecting over them.A Scrum Master who wants to avoid or payback the cognitive debt of the team will have to focus on creating spaces for deliberate discssions on regular basis. A one time facilitated retrospective or offsite event will not deliver expected results.That distinction matters enormously when AI is generating the easy answers and your team needs you to provide the hard ones.Conclusion:The cognitive debt is as real as technical debt. If not paid on time it is eventually going to hold your team back. Especially, in the scenarios where the team really needs to solve hard problems to which AI can not provide an easy answer. Scrum Masters accountability is getting more crucial than ever before because they have to hold space for their team to not only challenge each other but also challenge the AI generated output. It becomes even harder if the AI output comes from someone with authority and influence on the team.Scrum Master, who can grab the Attention of team, guides them in their insight Generation process, validates their Emotions in conflict situations and creates Spaced deliberate, intentional moments for open conversation will make the teams not just high performing but evolve them strategically. P.S. If you are a Scrum Master: ask yourself honestly when you last had your assumptions genuinely challenged? When was the last time you facilitated complex team dynamics, or fostered empiricism by holding space for divergent discussions? Are you ready to evolve your teams strategically?Whichever way you swing, you might want to explore Agilemania's PSM-I and PSM-A courses designed with the AGES model in mind. Not to help you pass an assessment, but to help you think more clearly, lead more effectively, and enable your teams with the kind of clrity that no AI tool will replicate.
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