The Fever is Real

"The software engineering industry was desperate for standardization to drive badly needed unification.
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Furthermore, the root causes of this fever, in general, have nothing to do with the UML itself: Rather, this fever and its various manifestations are largely symptoms of deeper ills in an organization's software development practices. "
-says Grady Booch, IBM Fellow and one of the original developers of UML in response to "Death by UML Fever".