Geoff Burns
banner
blxyt.bsky.social
Geoff Burns
@blxyt.bsky.social
17 followers 17 following 15 posts
Software Developer (29 years), agile coach (12 years) and Team Lead (11 years).
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
You can now create your own maps in my battleship game at geoffburns.github.io/battleship/s... geoffburns.blogspot.com/2015/10/penc... or the original blog post by selecting it from the hunt mode dropdown. geoffburns.blogspot.com/2015/10/penc...
you can find the new hide and seek version of my battleship game at geoffburns.github.io/battleship/s... or you and select it from the old version in my blog by selecting it from the hunt mode dropdown. geoffburns.blogspot.com/2015/10/penc...
Added some new maps to the both the paper version and the online version of my battleship game. I also added a hide and seek more to the online game. geoffburns.blogspot.com/2015/10/penc...
Added an online game to my Pencil & Paper Battleships article. So people can try out the different maps before printing them out. geoffburns.blogspot.com/2015/10/penc...
"You’ve Been Using Functional Ideas All Along—Now Understand Them"
Optionals, Lists and Monads. Category theory is not just for functional programmers.
geoffburns.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-...
People keep on asking for smaller maps for my version of the Pencil & Paper Battleships game. So 2 new maps on top of the 2 maps I released 13 days ago for a total of eleven

geoffburns.blogspot.com/2015/10/penc...
New Article:
Why real apps are more than just code—and how aligning Intent, Concept, and Implementation helps you survive geoffburns.blogspot.com/2025/08/deve...
Just added 2 more maps to my blog post on my version of the Pencil & Paper Battleships game! I this makes a total of 9 newish maps that are based on the feedback on the old maps

geoffburns.blogspot.com/2015/10/penc...
Pencil and Paper Battleships
chool holidays and I wanted to spend time with my daughters. I remember how I used to play Pencil and Paper Battleships with my...
geoffburns.blogspot.com
New Article: Making Work Actually... Flow

Too many bugs, late feedback, and chaotic releases? Your work isn’t flowing—it’s clogging.

How to fix it:
🪓 Split big stories
🔁 Tighten feedback loops
🤖 Automate relentlessly

geoffburns.blogspot.com/2025/07/maki...
Making Work Actually... Flow
ll Problems Are Not Created Equal  All teams have strengths and weaknesses. All teams have skill gaps. But every team is different—and so ...
geoffburns.blogspot.com
finding gold or oil, you need a good map—magnetic, radiometric, or seismic—and an expert to read it. Visualising that data took hours… unless you knew the one guy who did it in a fraction of the time.
I noticed. I asked questions. I improved it dramatically.
geoffburns.blogspot.com/2021/04/posi...
Positive Deviance
hen faced with adverse circumstances most people will muddle through but some will deviate from the norm doing much better or worse than no...
geoffburns.blogspot.com
One of the most impactful things I’ve done in my career? Overhauling a broken hiring process—with zero HR background.
It taught me: persistence + action > apathy.
You don’t need to be an expert to start fixing things.
You do need to care.
Blog post: geoffburns.blogspot.com/2014/05/hiri...
Hiring Staff
his is a skill that most people believe they can do without training and yet most hiring managers do not get the results they desire. Th...
geoffburns.blogspot.com