[froh42]

As an experienced programmer - if you really want to improve productivity 10 times, find the junior programmers in your team, empower them, give your advice when asked, shut up when not being asked, tell them they can do that hard task and help them out when they have problems. Be a decent human being. Then watch with pride as they grow in amazingly quick time. Oh - and just work for a company, that honors when you're doing that.

Nowadays programming is teamwork.

[bovermyer]

I'd argue that programming, like any other human endeavor, has always been teamwork.

[EForEndeavour]

In a sense, every programmer is a member of a global, mostly remote, asynchronous team of every person who contributed to the hardware, software, documentation, and theoretical foundations upon which the programmer depends.