What? What do collectivized agriculture and UML have in common? Well, according to my admired (no pun intended) Greg Wilson in his most recent post “Cathedrals, Bazaars, and In Between“, they are both the result of:
Large organizations always favor uniformity over productivity, because without uniformity, the center cannot control the periphery. “One king, one law” can sometimes be a great force for good, but what you usually get is collectivized agriculture and UML.
If you’re familiar with the history of UML, you’ll know there is some truth in this sentence. Whether this is bad or not (I mean UML, not collectivized agriculture 🙂 ), it’s subjected to interpretation but for now let’s just enjoy one of the best sentences involving the word UML you’ll read this year! (and if you’d like to read more, non-technical, stories by Greg check his other site Sensible Stories).
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FNR Pearl Chair. Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. Affiliate Professor at University of Luxembourg. More about me.
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