Joel Spolsky says he looks to recruit people who are "smart" and who "get things done". Joel seems to focus on the technology, but I think people who are "smart" understand the technology and the business problem the technology will solve, and how to best combine the two.
People who "get things done" understand how deliver the solution. They might learn about techniques such as agile methodologies to support them, but the important thing is they actually deliver something.
These can be represented on the following Venn diagram:
Many people are great at one of these, sometimes two, but if you want to be able to deliver successful projects, you need to maximise the area of intersection of all three circles, and expand your smallest circle until it is the size of the others. If you as an individual prefer one circle to the others, make sure that others you work with can balance the sizes of the circles.
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