As much as we learn and as hard as we try still many of our software projects fail. Hundreds or thousands of factors combine within a team or an organization to cause failure or inefficiency, but a large percentage of projects I've seen fail failed because of unproductive teams. Maybe they produced endless discussions or documentations instead of software, maybe they produced thousands of bugs instead the essential features, maybe they produced accusations and blame instead of working together toward a common goal, or maybe they didn't produce much of anything because they weren't motivated or didn't know what they were supposed to build. Productivity in a software team is the team's ability to produce quality, working software, but the concept is ubiquitous throughout all industries.

This session will address how everyone from the CEO to an entry-level developer can impact the productivity of their organization and the success of their software projects. We'll look at how techniques from agile and scrum can help improve productivity of teams as well as how individuals, teams, and organizations can each learn productivity lessons from GTD and other non-software disciplines.