technical know-how + tenacity Depends wildly on what you are doing - but tenacity in my case (paid consultant for lots of different companies) is my greatest q

technical know-how + tenacity Depends wildly on what you are doing - but tenacity in my case (paid consultant for lots of different companies) is my greatest quality. Push through - schedule carefully external dependency promises and follow through. Maybe this is more of a project manager answer - but a consultant programmer has to adopt the role of a project manager in lieu of a component one.