Historical Background

• Structured Analysis gurus picked up ideas of OO especially with DOD backing of ADA in 1983
• Notational and methods wars raged for fifteen years
• 1997 Object Management Group issued first UML standard
• Standardized notation for modeling software systems
• A tool for improving communications
• UML is a notation not a method
• Barely sufficient use of UML
• Strong CASE is almost always overkill - death to the Waterfall!
• Samples --http://www.visualuml.com/Sample%20Diagrams.htm