There really is language in the quantum world that validates why we need to act differently in 21st century software development and how we deliver valuable software effectively. Your current business is most likely based on a Newtonian view of the world: structure, hierarchy. In the 21st century relationship, congruency, and holism matter much more. Absorbing the truth of uncertainty rather than believing it can be analyzed away. These are some of the concepts and practices that can give you the 21st century edge.

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A Quantum Physicist and an Agile Executive
Walk into a Bar: empathy in a disordered
world
Jean Tabaka,
@jeantabaka
June 19 2015

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4. Why so many
martinis?

6. Why?
Agile transformation

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Agile executives deserve
empathy and need
experimentation practices

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Quantum physicists can offer
practical comfort

9. Physicists we know
and love

10. Isaac Newton

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12. Erwin Schrödinger

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14. “Superposition”

15. Werner Heisenberg

16. Werner Heisenberg

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18. “Uncertainty
Principle”

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20. Margaret Wheatley

21. Ilya Prirogene
Henry Stapp
Erich Jantsch
Danah Zohar

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Quantum language is not entirely
dissimilar to agile language

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12 principles of quantum
physics that can guide agile
executives

24. 1. Superposition
> We need fast feed back loops to know what is actually true

25. 2. Relationship
> It is the AND and process we engage in that matter more than hierarchy
and structure, give up predictability and open up to potentials

26. 3. Elementary
particles
> We are clouds of relationships, with dependencies on individuals
and of teams on each other

27. 4. Disorder and
chaos
> We cannot be creative and innovative without disorder. Growth
comes through disequilibrium, experimentation

28. 5. Dissipative
structures
> Adaptation and resilience in agile -- willing to change based on unexpected
conditions

29. 6. Autopoiesis
> Every process we have impacts every other, and this is for
continuous growth, continuous improvement

30. 7. Self-reference
> Stay congruent in your vision and goal as you invite change through
self-organization, not command-and-control

31. 8. Holism
> Look at the entire value stream, don’t sub-optimize on silos, check
your feedback loops

32. 9. Process over
structure
> Watch the flow, the work, not the worker

33. 10. Decentralization
> Servant leaders know what decisions to move closest to the value
worker, stability is not through control

34. 11. Uncertainty
> Let go of false precision; use fast feedback: probe, sense, respond
as a way to deal with uncertainty.

35. 12. [ ]
> We don’t yet know what we don’t know, all things are possible

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37. What about empathy?

44. What now?

45. Richard Feynman

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47. Guesses and
experiments

48. Design thinking

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51. Empathy experiments

52. design: @zachnies artwork:@jeantabaka

53. What did you say?

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Agile executives deserve
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experimentation practices

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Quantum physicists can offer
practical comfort

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58. A surprisingly cool deal…

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DOTD: $19.99

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