FW: The Technical Writer vs. Agile Development Methodologies

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Hi Tony,

What does "the UML techniques strongly retard a focus on the essential"
mean?

Thanks,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Markos
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:43 AM
> To: Gene Kim-Eng; HSC Italian; thatguy_80 -at- hotmail -dot- com; 
> techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: The Technical Writer vs. Agile Development Methodologies
> 
> Gene:
> 
> I disagree with that article.  The goal is not to
> create simple models - it is to create essential
> models.  I worked on a large-scale Agile Development
> project where the simple models where but Post It
> notes stuck to the bosses door.  Simple - yes, but the
> lack of rigor in this approach resulted in a large
> number of essential requirements being missed until
> much latter in the development process - and requiring
> a 1000 X more time to fix.
> 
> The article also specifically espouses use of UML
> modeling techniques.  Sorry to say it, but the UML
> techniques strongly retard a focus on the essential. 
> 

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