Team productivity is the sum of individual productivity though. Having all of the individual productivity disrupted is going to lead to lower team productivity.

Team productivity is the sum of individual productivity though. Having all of the individual productivity disrupted is going to lead to lower team productivity. This is generally untrue in my experience. Team productivity is usually limited by a bottlenecks and silos where progress stops. It seems counter-intuitive but you really can go faster as a whole by slowing some folks down. You don't get faster as a whole until you get your critical bottlenecks in the process faster.