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Produced by Cindy Tonkin, the Consultants' Consultant consultantsconsultant.com.au 

Editing James Ede

Intro and Outro music by Keegan O'Shea, Streethawks https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/streethawkers, used with Permission

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  2. 7: David Scott: we're the newcomers, we have to make the effort

7: David Scott: we're the newcomers, we have to make the effort

Dec 6, 2018

David Scott has worked in Banking, Telecommunications and in the Public Sector. Right now his agile teams are doing some very interesting work with traffic data. The team's stated aim is to make things better for us, the end user of NSW roads.

David shares insights on how agile is building a happy, collaborative team, his leadership hacks and what he looks for in recruits. Some of this will be surprising, some of it is just good sense.

Here is his linked in profile.

Here David Scott talks about:

  • the challenges of creating enterprise capability
  • why his teams are loving agile ways of working
  • his path to analytics through the business (Microsoft Access, his "gateway drug" to analytics)
  • how he focuses on "big ticket items" that make analytics easier for people on the floor
  • the importance of not getting bogged down in execution
  • what he looks for when recruiting and more...

Links, references and anything else we mention are here https://consultantsconsultant.com.au/podcast/7-david-scott/