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===[[Cowboy coding]]===

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Northeastern US residents sometimes use the term "Cowboy" derogatorily to mean reckless or irresponsible. Sticking the word "Cowboy" in front of the word "Coding" doesn't make it a software development philosophy. It is a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary#Neologisms|Neologism]] - it just means the same thing as "Cowboy-anything" but applied to code.

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The idea behind this article has some merit, in the sense that there can be an absence of development methodology in the same way that Anarchy is the absence of Government. But someone needs to articulate that much better than this article currently does. The article [[Software_development_process#Other|Software Development Process:Other]] has a section called "Code and Fix" that seems to roughly summarize this article. Maybe that section could be expanded? Also [[Capability_Maturity_Model|Capability Maturity Model]] Level 1 seems like the same idea. Actually, I think that's the closest match to the concept of development anarchy.

One person wrote that the term [[Rapid Application Development]] is sometimes used when companies don't want to admit that they have no formal development process. Maybe a section should be added there to say a little more about that. Maybe a list of maverick software developers should be made? <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:GlenPeterson|GlenPeterson]] ([[User talk:GlenPeterson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/GlenPeterson|contribs]]) 16:09, 1 February 2016‎</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

Here is the talk from the first attempt at deletion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Cowboy_coding <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:GlenPeterson|GlenPeterson]] ([[User talk:GlenPeterson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/GlenPeterson|contribs]]) 16:25, 1 February 2016‎</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

* '''Keep''' The term is reliably sourced and meets [[:WP:GNG]]. [[User:Walter Görlitz|Walter Görlitz]] ([[User talk:Walter Görlitz|talk]]) 17:12, 1 February 2016 (UTC)