Strategies to recommend groupware tools according to virtual team characteristics

The different communication technologies that appeared in the last decades made Global Software Development (GSD) projects a common way to develop software. However, the difficulties distance between sites causes in communication and information management are the main disadvantages of this kind of projects and therefore, an interesting field of research. Our proposal focuses on techniques from the field of cognitive psychology to define a new approach to groupware tools selection. In previous work we focused on defining preferences at the individual level. As a complement, this paper presents a set of strategies to find the best selection for a given group of people, taking into account the different combinations of cognitive profiles that can arise in a GSD project.