This sounds like the inverse of cowboy coding. The classic cowboy move is to tackle all of the easy parts incohesively, so the end program does may three quarte

This sounds like the inverse of cowboy coding. The classic cowboy move is to tackle all of the easy parts incohesively, so the end program does may three quarters of what it is supposed to. Unfortunately implementing the last quarter will usually require re-writing large parts of the original code over years. Sometimes the cowboy will linger around to try keep the unshippable code as-is. :( I do not understand why.