What are the difficulties encountered when development teams work on incompatible platforms?

Question

And what are some ways that they can minimize them?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The only way there would be difficulty is if the result of one team's work must interoperate with another's.

As long as there is a good plan for interoperability with strong service contracts and clearly defined usage of communication protocols, I dont think there should be much trouble.

Of course there also tends to be friendly ribbing when it comes to a dev's "preferred" platform.