Advantages of Cowboy Coding
- Developers maintain a free-form working environment that may encourage experimentation, learning, and free distribution of results.
- It allows developers to cross architectural and/or tiered boundaries to resolve design limitations and defects.
- Without a development/designer framework, the programmer, as opposed to the project manager, is responsible for removing roadblocks. This may improve the speed of development.
- Independent developers can begin with cowboy coding techniques before later selling them to commercial use or creating community-supported projects.
- Small projects may be burdened by heavy software management methodologies; cowboy coding removes this burden.
- By coding in their own time, a hobby project may come to fruition which otherwise wouldn't have.
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