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Every senior developer should be able to self manage project - the less "interconnects" the faster, cheaper and more reliably the system operates. The only thing managers might be useful for is to facilitate things with external people - generally developers have got poor social skillz, so this is when some nice girl in mini skirt would be helpful to get required info from 3rd parties easily.
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Originally posted by AtWIt seems to me that this UML, ITIL, UTWHAtever is just a job creation scheme for the managers who do not really add value.
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It seems to me that this UML, ITIL, UTWHAtever is just a job creation scheme for the managers who do not really add value.
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Originally posted by TheMonkeyUML is a modelling tool. It is synonymous to schematics in electronics engineering. It is a simple language-independant communication tool for modelling and visualising systems.
And to answer your questions, AtW, yes, you can use UML for management too. There was a discipline called object-oriented project management with UML but that is, of course, limited to object-oriented architectures. Besides, RUP inherits the main features of UML and focuses on activity-based costing so that you can add business analytical capabilities to an otherwise purely technical analysis. As you see the process has already started, the bullsh1tters, the most common segment of the current IT panorama, have their days numbered. Who is going to bring the bottle of champagne to celebrate?
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Originally posted by zeitghostAnd since they've just taken all the lead out of solder, none of it will work anyway.
Fecking EU.
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UML is a modelling tool. It is synonymous to schematics in electronics engineering. It is a simple language-independant communication tool for modelling and visualising systems.
It's an attempt to move software into an engineering discipline, like others such as mechanical engineering and electronics.
Don't forget that "designing" software is relatively new and it takes many decades to formalise something. Look at how many years it has taken to formalise electronics for example.
We might see something "standardised" by the time we're dead.
As for practical use, I use it for everything. It tends to let me see a crock before it hits the system so I can beat my subordinates around a bit until they submit...
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Originally posted by AtWNobody asked for your opinion dimwit.
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Crap design is when some rapid ruskie slaphead inserts lots of assembler into the code to perform micro-optimisation.
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What exactly is crap in OS designes - too slow, not flexible enough for change (ie hard coded stuff)?
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I was doing this kind of thing (system analysis, that is) 10 years ago. I'm not doing it for outsourcing reasons but I don't think UML helps OS particularly, cr@p design still makes for cr@p code.
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So is UML is just for Docs, or also for project management (since presumably features/requirements are all defined), sounds like this kind of thing is meant to facilitate outsaucing.
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Before UML, designs were written in document form. This meant that the users could sometimes understand them. UML is the IT community's move to stamp out that sort of thing.
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