People · Stream convenor — Technical Practice
Dr Anselm Pike
Convenes Technical Practice. Former engineering manager who has read more README files than is medically advisable, and asks whether it runs before anything else.
Anselm managed engineering teams for eleven years and hired into them throughout, which means he has read more README files than is medically advisable and can tell you the median time a reviewer spends on one. It is under a minute.
His first question about any artefact is whether it runs, and he asks it kindly, because he has watched plenty of good work fail that question for reasons that had nothing to do with the work. He is unmoved by vocabulary and noticeably moved by a reproducible setup step.
Anselm convenes Technical Practice, delivers the week-2 and week-3 lectures, runs the week-8 red team with Wren Halloway, and takes one leg of the week-10 guest relay. Students in the other two streams are welcome in his tutorials, where they tend to discover that their own conventions are conventions.
- Role
- Stream convenor — Technical Practice
On the timetable
What Pike teaches
- Week 2 lecture: Reqspeak: A Field Guide to the Dialect of the Job Ad1 March 2027
- Week 3 lecture: The Shape of the Distance8 March 2027
- Week 8 lecture: The Plausibility Budget19 April 2027
- Week 10 lecture: What They Wish You'd Asked3 May 2027
- Week 1: Self-Audit Clinic22 February 2027
- Week 2: Live Teardown1 March 2027
- Week 3: Blind Review8 March 2027
- Week 4: Claims Tribunal15 March 2027
- Week 5: Anecdote Roleplay22 March 2027
- Week 6: Gallery Walk29 March 2027
- Week 7: Outreach Sprint12 April 2027
- Week 8: Red Team19 April 2027
- Week 9: Mock Panel26 April 2027
- Week 10: Negotiation Simulation3 May 2027
- Week 11: Artefact Swap10 May 2027
- Week 12: Closing Viva17 May 2027