UML Fever

CowboyRobot writes "Queue has a couple of articles about UML: Death by UML Fever by Boeing software architect Alex Bell describes the problems that can result from over-reliance on modeling tools, with lighthearted lessons for the software development process in general and numerous illuminating quotations, such as: "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. - Jim Horning." Then, one of the developers of UML, Grady Booch of IBM, follows with The Fever is Real, in which he explains the motivations for creating the language, how it's used today, and where he expects it to go soon."

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Acronyms

[Space cowboy]

True linux-focussed geeks would have immediately wondered why user-mode linux was suddenly such a hot topic, and so dangerous to boot :-)

Simon

Software architect?

[AtariAmarok]

Never forget Weinberg's Law:

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization"

I've gotten spams about these

[AtariAmarok]

The leading building corporation would proclaim that there's nothing wrong with the buildings and a new market of woodpecker traps and anti woodpecker missiles would thrive.

I've already gotten spams about these products concerning software woodpeckers. In fact, I got one this morning that had a title "SOLVE YOUR SOFT PECKER PROBLEMS"

Re:UML for HUGE projects.

[A55M0NKEY]

I agree UML is fine for HUGE projects as long as HUGE is defined as 'just a little HUGER than the one we are working on'.

Hackles cartoon

[Ellen Spertus]

UML Gone Wrong