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&ldquo;Software productivity&rdquo; can mean two different things: the overall productivity of all software development, or the productivity of individual projects. Overall productivity is what society would like to improve, and the most straightforward way to do this is to eliminate the artificial obstacles to cooperation which reduce it. But researchers who study the field of &ldquo;software productivity&rdquo; focus only on the second, limited, sense of the term, where improvement requires difficult technological advances.