About the Agile Yorkshire Community


Agile Yorkshire is a monthly gathering of IT professionals from in and around Yorkshire. It has met every month since 2007 to discuss Agile software development methods and extreme programming, plus a host of other IT issues.

Agile Yorkshire's monthly gatherings provide a platform for local practitioners to network, learn from each other and listen to some of the IT industries highest profile speakers.

Next Event:  06 Aug 2025

The Organisers

Royd Brayshay

Royd Brayshay is an agile coach and trainer based in Leeds.

He works with all kinds of agile coaching clients around Yorkshire and across the north of England to help them become more commercially effective at building software.

He is a co-owner of NewRedo, a software company based in Leeds with clients including the Lotus Formula 1 Racing Team, EasyJet, Walmart and some growing lean startups.

Royd was nominated for an agile coaching award in 2012.

Past Speakers

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Stuart Grimshaw
Software engineer with 30+ years of experience across e-commerce, transport, "big data", local & national government. I've seen software delivered every which way and I'm currently using that expeience to help companies get better at creating...
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Mike Burrows
Mike works at the intersection of Lean-Agile, strategy, and organisation development in the pursuit of the ‘wholehearted’ organisation. He is the author of Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (2025),...
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Jennifer Poole
Scrum Master from Leeds Building Society, with experience across multiple industries including utilities, broadcasting and the financial sector but all with a common purpose to deliver value, reduce waste and develop high performing teams.
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Michael Lloyd
Michael is a Coach and Leader who has spent the last decade helping teams and organisations to improve their ways of working. As the creator of Dysfunction Mapping, his mission is to arm people with the tools to find and solve the problems that...
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Amy Kouppas
My name is Amy Kouppas and I am a cheerleader of people and lifting others and my passion is community. My career started in 1st and 2nd line support, to falling in love with SQL in a student database department, to then working in software for...
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Bianca Spruit
Bianca is a Management & Leadership Consultant dedicated to helping leaders create workplaces where people feel valued, supported, and able to reach their full potential. With over 20 years in the tech industry, she has experienced both the power of...