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Adam Pridmore

Programmer by day, cyclist by night. Fan of maths, science & tech.

Neil McLaughlin

Neil is a freelance developer/coach/scrum master who enjoys building stuff and helping teams to enjoy building stuff.

Robert Burrell

Robert Burrell Donkin is an active Open Source contributor best known for work in Jakarta (now Apache) Commons and was elected a Member of the Apache Software Foundation in 2005. During the day, he designs and develops enterprise systems in Java...

Richard Fennell

Richard Fennell is the Engineering Director of the Black Marble Ltd aGold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises inBizTalk & SharePoint based business automation. As EngineeringDirector he is responsible for the delivery of...

Ralph Williams

Ralph Williams is a Test Consultant at the Yorkshire Building Society, based in Bradford. The Society develops much of the application software used throughout its 140 branches and offices, and Ralph is responsible for managing the testing for some...

Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic is a software craftsman with a passion for new technologies, programming and writing. He runs Neuri Ltd,a UK-based consultancy that helps companies build better software byintroducing agile practices and tools and improving communication...

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert does Agile Enterprise coaching –everything from launching new agile technical teams to advising executives on how to take Agile and Lean principles far beyond software development in their drive to deliver more customer...

Ian Carroll

Ian Carroll is a consultant, coach, and speaker on all topics related to Lean, Kanban and Agile software development. Using his 25 years of hands-on experience he helps clients transform their organisations using Agile & Lean techniques to lower...

Alan Williams

Mark Stringer

Mark Stringer is a trainer, coach and consultant in the use of Agile methods. He's particularly interested in exploring project management methods that emphasise the human nature of project management, because he thinks they might actually work.

David Joyce

David is an agile development manager and coach with 12 years technical team management and coaching experience, and 20 years software development experience. In recent years, using Scrum and XP, David has coached onshore and off shore development...

Peter Camfield

Peter has been developing software professionally for the last 12 years. His current role as a software developer and coach is focused on improving the quality of the code developed at BBC Worldwide.

Martin Fowler

I'm an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development. I concentrate on designing enterprise software -looking at what makes a good design and what practices are needed to come up with good design. I've been a pioneer of...

Joseph Wilk

Joseph Wilk is a member of the core development team for Cucumber. He has been developing for the web for 10 years in both big and small companies and as an entrepreneur. After stints working with Java andPython he finally found Ruby. He now spends...

Andy Barker

Andy Barker, a Technical Specialist in the Business Intelligence development team at HML in Skipton.

Ashley Moran

Rachel Davies

Rachel Davies has a wealth of experience through her work coaching agile teams. Her new book "Agile Coaching" shares many practical tips that can help you take your teams to the next level. Rachel supports the agile community as a long-serving...

Paul Battisson

Paul wears multiple hats at Radius, including Technical Architect and Senior Developer, where they worked closely with clients to design and implement tailored solutions. They have led various product teams using a range of technologies, including...

Robert Burrell Donkin

Robert Burrell Donkin is agile developer by day, open sourcerer by night. Old enough to have experienced DSDM and Extreme Programming when they were shiny, he remembers well the dark days before test first. Open source highlights include...

Mark van Harmelen

Mark van Harmelen has worked in a whole slew of different areas in Computer Science, including, in the dim and distant past, staring down oscilloscopes and logic analysers looking for lost nanoseconds. Mark spent several years specialising in user...

Paul Hollingworth

He is an organisational development consultant, owner of 4GM consulting, and a member of the North of England Transformation Network.

Aaron Pritzlaff

Aaron Pritzlaff has been writing object-oriented code since the mid 90s in C++, Java and .NET. He’s taken an interest in the rise of alternative JVM languages these past few years, Scala in particular. Though he’s no expert, he has written several...

Chris Moran

Chris is accountable for development and growth of the Software Engineering and Assurance capabilities for BJSS in the North. Building on an established base of technical excellence, Chris is responsible for working closely with senior management to...

Ian Stafford

I collaborate with various Agile teams, offering guidance on best practices and architecture, as well as writing and deploying ARM templates in Azure. I also create prototypes, and focus on securing and monitoring solutions. My skill set includes a...

Ady Stokes

I'm a senior tester with 20 years of experience in software testing. I help companies build better software through testing, coaching, training, speaking and mentoring.

Rachel Davies

Rachel is co-author of the first “Agile Coaching” book and the UK’s leading expert in coaching agile teams. She is internationally recognized and presents at industry conferences worldwide. Rachel has over 20 years experience in software development...

Gary Short

Head of Gibraltar Labs. Microsoft MVP in C#. Node.js and Python hacker. Podcaster, speaker and social network wrangler.

Simon Davy

An academic who crossed the divide into industry with no regrets. Currently working for Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, in the Online Services group. Interests involve building distributed systems and good user experiences. I help to run...

Phil Rice

Phil started his career writing control systems for robots that inspect and repair Nuclear Reactor. Since then he has worked on large websites, and for the last 10 years he worked as founder then CTO of the company Erudine. Currently he is CTO of...

Clement Pickering

Clem has been with the Callcredit group for over 13 years leading Development teams in creating a wide range of products for the financial services industry. He has long been an advocate of agile development practices and the philosophy that...

Kevin Rutherford

Dr Kevin Rutherford is author of the vastly under-rated Reek code smell detector, and the vastly over-rated book ‘Refactoring in Ruby’. If you have ever used Unix System V or transferred money between bank accounts, you’ve unwittingly used his code....

Ryan Haney

Ryan is a User Experience Specialist, facilitator and teacher. As a life-long generalist, he's come to see the positive side of being a creative generalist and is now the @happygeneralist. He's passionate about manipulating knowledge to solve...

Brian Wernham

Brian Wernham has more than 30 years' experience in adaptive project leadership. He is an independent consultant and works in both the public sector and the private sector. He has extensive international experience, having worked in the USA, UK,...

Kev McCabe

Kev has worked with large corporations in the Finance, Media and E-commerce spaces. He’s currently the Technical Lead for General Electric,He has had an Interest in all things Agile since 2002, mainly XP, but of late Scrum & Kanban having become a...

Dom Hodgson

Dom Hodgson has been breaking things on the internet for a few years, his background is in Search, Startups and events, he is the organiser of LeedsHack and has competed in over 30 hackdays around the world.

Andy Stewart

Andy Stewart has worked in IT since 2000 and currently runs an independent consultancy based in Leeds. He has spent the majority of the last 5 years delivering high volume and performance messaging systems for a variety of sectors. Andy is a keen...

Mike Burrows

Mike has led development teams and larger IT functions for much of his career, working in the aerospace, software tools, finance and energy sectors. Mike is well known to the Kanban community through the sharing of his experiences leading one of the...

Grant Crofton

Grant is a Principle Software Developer at Callcredit in Leeds, where he spends his days leading development teams and writing the odd bit of code. He's a C# developer by trade, but likes to dabble in anything that looks interesting - when he can...

Joe Roberts

Joe is head of engineering at Magnolia Box and CTO of hydra.io (an API for building and profiting from digital image based applications). He is passionate about building resilient, scalable software, frequently using a service-oriented approach....

David Bryant

David has worked in development for his entire career; as an academic, consultant and public servant, across a wide variety of industries and sectors. Since 2007, David has been working for the Health and Social Care Information Centre where he is...

Ian Russell

Ian Russell has nearly 20 experience as a hands-on software developer/solution architect, specialising in data-intensive OLTP solutions on the Microsoft stack. He is a regular speaker at user groups throughout the Midlands delivering sessions on a...

Nick McKenna

Nick is the founder and CEO of McKenna Consultants and takes a very "hands on" approach to the business. Nick's passion for quality software is what drives the organisation forward, implementing Agile principles and practices throughout the entire...

Ryan Haney

Ryan Haney, A User Experience Specialist and facilitator at Red-Gate software where he leads Collab Lab, an experimental facilitation group.

Clarke Ching

Clarke Ching is an expert in the application of Goldratt's Theory of Constraints to Agile software development. He is author of Rocks into Gold and Rolling Rocks Downhill (BETA). He gained Scrum certification from Ken Schwaber in Scotland in 2004...

Lee Jackson

Lee Jackson is a motivational speaker, PowerPoint surgeon, presentation coach and author. A former youth worker (and Hip Hop DJ!), he now works in businesses, schools and colleges helping people get the best out of their time there. He is also a...

Susan Atkinson

Susan is a commercial lawyer at Keystone Law based in London. She specialises in IT, e-commerce and online financial services, and has worked both in private practice and in-house. Her practice has typically included high-value, complex...

Thom Lawrence

Thom is a co-founder of Delver, a platform for natural language interfaces. We're trying to make it dead simple for you to integrate Siri or Facebook Graph Search style natural language queries into your own apps.

Andy Stewart

Amy Thompson

Winner of Best Agile Coach or Mentor at the UK Agile Awards, November 2013, Amy is a scrum.org Certified Professional ScrumMaster and is passionate about Agile. Having worked with major players like Orange, her current role as ScrumMaster and Agile...

Ash Winter

Tester, Scrum Master, Stater of the Obvious. Spent the past 5 years in organisations aspiring to transform to a new way of working. Believer in the power of testing to tell the story of that journey.

Upcoming Event

Aug

06

2025

2025 August Meetup

Join us this August as the Agile Yorkshire community, a long standing community of practice, comes together for another evening of insight, inspiration, and connection. Whether you're deeply embedded in agile ways of working or just beginning to explore new approaches, our monthly meetups offer a welcoming space to learn, share, and grow. Agile Yorkshire is committed to fostering an environment where professionals can exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, and support one another in navigating real world delivery challenges. It’s a place to stay curious, build lasting relationships, and strengthen the region’s agile capability together. Come along, get involved, and be part of Yorkshire’s thriving agile community. We can’t wait to see you there!

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Guest Speakers

Adam Pridmore

Neil McLaughlin

Robert Burrell

Richard Fennell

Ralph Williams

Gojko Adzic

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert

Ian Carroll

Alan Williams

Mark Stringer

David Joyce

Peter Camfield

Martin Fowler

Joseph Wilk

Andy Barker

Ashley Moran

Rachel Davies

Paul Battisson

Robert Burrell Donkin

Mark van Harmelen

Paul Hollingworth

Aaron Pritzlaff

Chris Moran

Ian Stafford

Ady Stokes

Rachel Davies

Gary Short

Simon Davy

Phil Rice

Clement Pickering

Kevin Rutherford

Ryan Haney

Brian Wernham

Kev McCabe

Dom Hodgson

Andy Stewart

Mike Burrows

Grant Crofton

Joe Roberts

David Bryant

Ian Russell

Nick McKenna

Ryan Haney

Clarke Ching

Lee Jackson

Susan Atkinson

Thom Lawrence

Andy Stewart

Amy Thompson

Ash Winter

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