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:  03 Sept 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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Fred Pernet
67% of strategies fail not because they were wrong, but because they weren’t executed well. At Agile Yorkshire, I’ll share how the SEM360 stategy execution maturity benchmarking tool which helps leaders and teams see where execution is breaking...
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Tom Hoyland
Tom is an Agility and DevOps Practitioner, Coach and Mentor at That Agile. With more than 20 years in tech, Tom has led Agile, DevOps and Digital Transformations working with clients across the globe to build teams, grow capabilities, and promote...
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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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Mark Stringer
Mark Stringer has worked in software development for 30 years—as a programmer, researcher, and, for the past 15 years, a project manager. He’s worked with IBM, Xerox, and Cambridge University. He wrote his book Delivering the Impossible after...