Did Standardization Kill Software Modeling Innovation?

I unearthed this report from an OOPSLA 1997 panel titled, “UML: the language of blueprints for software?” We panelists, John Artim, Viktor Ohnjec, Erick Rivas, Jim Rumbaugh, and myself, discussed potential benefits and drawbacks of this new modeling language, called UML, to describe software systems and prognisticated on how standardizing on notation might affect software development. UML stands…