I am now the tech lead for our team of four. Unlike our outgoing tech lead, I'm only going to be responsible for the technical aspects of the job. The managerial aspects will be handled by someone else. This is a pretty good outcome for me, because I'll be able to focus on enhancing my technical skills while broadening my role to include new aspects such as requirements analysis.
Another outcome of my professional development discussion is that I'll be able to focus specifically on improving my C++ skills. Since there isn't a lot of new development work left on our project, I'll be somewhat limited in opportunities to apply these skills directly. There may be some opportunity to work on various utilities for testing and performance metrics, but I'll also be allowed to spend time just learning without any immediate benefit to the project. I'm going to join the ACCU (my employer will probably pay for it). Later in the year I might look at developing some sort of C++ best practice guide.
As the development effort of our project ramps down, I'll also be given the opportunity to use my domain knowledge to assist with safety analysis. I'm not sure exactly what's involved but it will probably be identifying and analysing potential hazards. I don't expect there will be much coding involved, but it should be interesting.
I'm hungry now
I think I'll cook up some pasta. I'll use a tomato, onion and mushroom sauce in a jar, and add ham, mushroom, onion, olives, capsicum, and spices. Should be good...
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