The general feeling about UML is that it's overkill for most projects and actively harmful when used to generate code. On the other hand, most agree that parts

The general feeling about UML is that it's overkill for most projects and actively harmful when used to generate code. On the other hand, most agree that parts of UML are useful as communication tools. However, UML was designed as a standard, near-UML is not UML. Ergo, UML is useless. I feel better already.