Yeah man, I get that. I said that I'm at a small-a agile shop and it's working well for us.
That doesn't change the fact that the only time I've seen the phrase 'cowboy programmer' used, it's as a preemptively ad hominem argument that anything besides Capital A Agile As Written On Stone Tablets can't possibly work. And if it does, it's cause they're cowboys.
As a counterpoint, demanding something is deployed every 2 weeks, whether it's a 1-week task or a 3-week task, leads to plenty of cowboyism right within the process.
Who demands 3 week tasks launch in 2 weeks? And Agile dev cycles delivers whatever is ready every two weeks, instead of shipping everything on an arbitrary deadline.
That doesn't change the fact that the only time I've seen the phrase 'cowboy programmer' used, it's as a preemptively ad hominem argument that anything besides Capital A Agile As Written On Stone Tablets can't possibly work. And if it does, it's cause they're cowboys.
As a counterpoint, demanding something is deployed every 2 weeks, whether it's a 1-week task or a 3-week task, leads to plenty of cowboyism right within the process.