Considerations and requirements for tools supporting mobile teams

Product development processes increasingly happen in cooperations, where cooperation partners are dislocated in time and space. This leads to the fact that teamworkers have to be more and more mobile and brings us to the presumption that the support of spontaneous information exchange and mobile ad hoc interaction among team members will gain in importance. Some of the questions that have to be answered when building tools for supporting mobile teamwork as well as the requirements for such tools are discussed in the paper.