Areas .NET TL's have to update themselves

One of my friend use to advice me to attend interviews every 6 - 9 months. I gave a try. I could see myself as a [Technology Lead] where I am lagging in the technical and other skills. To help my readers I am listing out few the areas where I came to know a TL has to update/upgrade.

Protocols like SOAP, HTTP, TCP
UML - Views (Process, Sequential, ...)
UML - Diagrams (Collaboration, Communication, ...)
Ajax - Internals, Architecture, Scenario, ...
.NET tools - FxCop, NUnit, ...
Profilers - CLR Profiler, ANTS, ...
Estimation techniques
Build Tools - MSBuild
ASP.NET Performance Counters
SOA concepts
SDLC Process
Unit Testing, Integration Testing, etc...
EAI - BizTalk exposure
Collaboration - MOSS concepts

All the best!

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