( 5 reviews )
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Posted: Jun 19 2007
I liked a lot of the book but still felt much of it was too much BUFD, at least for what I do. As with any UML book or article I find myself lost between the similarities and subtle differences between many of the diagrams. I figure that if I am lost then surely the business experts and stakeholders I am working with will be too. The best thing I take away from this book is the real need to develop a high-level model, develop solid use cases or user stories, and then flesh out the model to handle these user stories. I give it 4 stars because what is too much or too little in regards to UML and modeling in general is highly subjective and should not detract from the quality of the book.
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( 5 of 16 found this review helpful ) Posted: Mar 2 2004
I had to read this book for a class I took. Here is my interpretation of the purpose of this book:"I think the world should have used my ICONIX process! This UML stuff is inferior. I hate UML, but I will use it to sell my book."Fortunately, the class also used Martin Fowler's great UML Distilled book. If you want to know about UML, get that one instead!
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( 6 of 17 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 3 2003
If you are looking for a book on the Unified Process (as I was), then this book is not for you. This book covers the author's Iconix process. Considering the book's title I would have expected it to examine use cases and UML more than it does. I was really intereted in the Unified Process. But, the Iconix methodology is a good one, and were it to be more prevalent in the industry I would take a harder look at it.
