and agile, you should read a gamer's notice of development and design processes. (via james shore; [as it seems this community collects people with the same or nearly the same name, there is a jim shore too, who wrote fail fast])

i still hear scott ambler saying: ¡give me my whiteboard back! model driven architecture is not for everyone, these mba guys try to sell you uml as a standard, ¡it's not! and his doubts that programmers are visual thinkers:

There is an underlying assumption in traditional software engineering that we are visual thinkers as a general populus. now that is true among people in general, like 80, 90% of people lean towards visual thinking, but in the it-community I don't think it is so true. not_visual (audio/mpeg, 534 KB)

don't forget to collect your bonus by clicking/going there. where they all nest.

...are the same person. :-)

Cheers,
Jim