The main reason I haven't been blogged much lately is that I've been moved up to a Tech Lead position. I've been at the Big Bad Company for a little over a year, and have been given a promotion and an opportunity to Make Things Better(tm).

And, really, there is definitely room for improvement and I'm glad to know that my input is valued. Can I make them better? Not by myself but I do have a cohort to do the business side of things. He's working on the customer and non-technical side and I'm on the Agile and technical part of the fence. And on the fence is where we work together.

So here is how some things are different:

• I spend less time developing software and more time fixing problems. For example, instead of writing code, I spend time helping people figure out why things aren't working, or hunting down a DBA who needs to approve a request.
• I get to research and (hopefully) play around with tools that we may or may not use.
• My time spent in meetings has greatly increased.
• I'm now approving change requests!! More work for me, but better for everyone else since I'm available and, well, the Powers That Be go to more meetings than I do.
• I have written more on a whiteboard in the past month than the past two years added together. It's because I'm the one doing the explaining, not because I'm being explained to.