Re:Has UML died without anyone noticing?
by chrisseaton on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:45PM
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Maybe I'm cynical, but it seems like these people are in a farcical cycle of repeatedly inventing some new master theory of programming only to find it's actually a disaster a few years later and then to switch to something apparently diametrically opposed.
Of course, they have a book on sale to explain the new idea...
How much time was wasted and how many projects were damaged by the bad idea of UML and design up-front that they were pushing as hard as they could less than two decades ago? How many developers are being stressed by endless manic sprinting and micro-managing processes under the name of Agile?
Maybe they should stop? Or apply some actual science? Some of this in-group call themselves scientists but all they do is pontificate. I'm not really sure many of them spend much time actually programming.
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A: (around 1997) We are hopeful that the methodology called UML will solve the software engineering problem.
B: We have tried that UML methodology and it doesn't solve the problem it said it would. We should try something else
C: (Feburary 2001) We have an ideology based on what we have found to solve the problem in practice, let's make a manifesto.