I just got a promotion where I work; it's not the position that I really want (and management knows my goal), but it's the position that the organisation needs.

I just got a promotion where I work; it's not the position that I really want (and management knows my goal), but it's the position that the organisation needs. I got this primarily because I stepped up and took ownership of a project when it needed to be done. I've made mistakes, I'll make more mistakes, but I'm not trying to be on the management track. However, it is important enough to me that I be involved in the decisions being made that this promotion is a good thing. What decisions? 1. How to arrange the office (we were able to partially remove the cubicles to give my team a much more open area to work with). 2. What we're working on and the technical direction that we should take in doing so (I am negotiating features and scope directly with our product managers). 3. When and how to recognise my team for hard work (small recognition; I have no direct control over pay raises). There's more, but it's really important to me that the people that I work with get the respect they deserve, and it's now officially my job to make sure that they get it. If they've got good ideas, I want to hear them so that I can be their advocate for those good ideas. Even though I've written very little code over the last year, I'm still developing software. I just have other people who write most of the code.