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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Re:UML

[mwheeler01]

Who uses UML? The designers or the programmers?

I should imagine the designers wouldn't be very good at it, and I should imagine that programmers would have better ways to express themselves.

Actually a good designer probably has some experience coding. As to who uses it? Well ideally the designer or project leader should author it and the programmers should be able to read and understand it, so both parties technically use it.