Posted in Tools vendors stuck on UML and agility
Posted Wednesday 13th February 2008 15:42 GMT
Engineers vs. Artists
UML has 2 problems:
1) It has everything, including the kitchen sink, in it. This makes for a big complicated application that is hard to learn.
2) UML doesn't enforce a work flow from design to code. It fact it has no direct decomposition into code the way a structured design would.
The main problem is the tendency for developers to be programmers instead of software engineers. The mindsets are different: one is death-or-glory/John Wayne type of person and the other makes solid dull code that works and knows how to handle things when it didn't work (BSOD anyone?)
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