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Global Software Development (GSD) projects became a common way to develop software during the last decade. However, despite the economic benefits that globalization may introduce, GSD faces a series of factors that affect communication and challenge its success. In order to improve communication in such environments, we focus on techniques from the field of cognitive psychology to define a new approach to groupware tools selection. In this paper we present a series of strategies to find the best choice for a given group of people, taking into account the different combinations of cognitive profiles that can arise in a GSD project, as well as the application of one of these strategies in a case study.
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Aranda, G.N., Vizcaíno, A., Cechich, A., Piattini, M. (2010). Applying Strategies to Recommend Groupware Tools According to Cognitive Characteristics of a Team. In: Wang, Y., Zhang, D., Kinsner, W. (eds) Advances in Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 323. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16083-7_6
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