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  1. Oct 26th, 2006, 09:40 PM #1
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    is design, use cases,UML....etc very useful and highly used in business to produce hi

    is design, use cases,UML....etc very useful and highly used in business to produce high and perfomant results or it mostly a waste of time and money.

    Can u please tell me how u look at that before we start coding in .Net
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  2. Oct 27th, 2006, 07:02 AM #2
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    Re: is design, use cases,UML....etc very useful and highly used in business to produce hi

    I'm curious to see other opinions and experiences on this myself...

    We've done enterprise level application development since the mid 1980's and I've personally never seen a design specification that was produced in advance of development that actually "specified the final product".

    Iterative design seems to be the reality of my world.

    And as much as customers don't think they are going to force us into iterative design - and as much as they hire consultants and spend excessive amount of time in meetings laying out initial specifications - they never nail it down up front.

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    Re: is design, use cases,UML....etc very useful and highly used in business to produce hi

    Model based languages are neat, but static specifications are unrealistic.
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    Re: is design, use cases,UML....etc very useful and highly used in business to produce hi

    Quote Originally Posted by szlamany
    I'm curious to see other opinions and experiences on this myself...

    We've done enterprise level application development since the mid 1980's and I've personally never seen a design specification that was produced in advance of development that actually "specified the final product".

    Iterative design seems to be the reality of my world.

    And as much as customers don't think they are going to force us into iterative design - and as much as they hire consultants and spend excessive amount of time in meetings laying out initial specifications - they never nail it down up front.
    Great points szalamany,

    We finished a project about 1 year ago, and we just finished its final specs 2 days ago...
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