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Has anyone used UML?

Roman Suzi rnd at onego.ru
Mon Jun 4 14:07:06 EDT 2001 
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Alan Gauld wrote:

>Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I took a 3 day class on UML once.  My impression: yet another
>> "silver bullet" that doesn't work in real life.
>
>Like any design notation UML is there to communicate. If
>the peer group is small enough the advantages are marginal.
>If you are working in a distributed group of 20 or more
>programmers something likev UML is near essential. Most
>of my projects involve several hundreds of programmers
>(250 on the current one) and there we simply couldn't
>operate without UML.
>
>But a small team UML may be overkill. Frankly I think the
>best bits of UML are the component/package diagrams and
>the deployment diagrams for documenting the physical design.

Then GnUML could be good idea for Freeware projects -
they also need to communicate design ideas.

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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