For me it is important that it looks like a UML diagram, not how to create it or if a tool does a certain kind of validation of what I choose and combine. The coolest presentation is something like a hand-written diagram. That looks fresh, innovative and individual. Balsamiq Mockup does this for user interfaces perfectly. So, I only had to invent a way to teach UML to it. You guess it, I found one 
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More than a year ago I had a look at the market of free UML tools and followed Adam Bien’s recommendation for StarUML finally. ArgoUML, whose user interface is even better, was buggy and slow those days. Today I installed the current ArgoUML again and was surprised about the quality.
It is a bit like my yesterday’s post about Balsamiq Mockup for interface design: I need something simple to get fast results, without all these bells and whistles ...
MoreIs a software architect with a strong development background a kind of alien in a group of developers? Sometimes I feel like that when it comes to what I define as code quality: I program for my team members not for myself. The most important part for me here is maintenance.
Well, what is the most important part of my work as architect: risk management. So, it’s important that architecture, design and the code help to get all the change and ...
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Rainer Eschen is an agile coach with a focus on Scrum Project Management.
He is a Certified Professional Scrum Master I, a Certified Project
Management Associate (IPMA Level D) and co-founder of openPM.
Since the mid-1990s Rainer worked as a consultant, developer, architect, team leader, systems engineer, project manager, scrum master and scrum coach – since 2000 with a strong focus on JEE. He was also part of “the source” for 3 years working at Sun Microsystems, Germany.
Rainer is author of the book ICEfaces 1.8: Next Generation Enterprise Web Development, Packt Publishing, 2009.
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