Peer pressure led me to purchase The Unified Software Development Process, The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, and Fundamentals of Object Oriented Design

Peer pressure led me to purchase The Unified Software Development Process, The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, and Fundamentals of Object Oriented Design in UML, and while I tried to read them and understand what they were trying to accomplish, I realized that putting ideas and concepts and flows into formal diagrams with rules to argue with others really wasn't getting me or my group anywhere. So we went back to whiteboarding and mostly doing top-down design (using decomposition to get down to actual data flow), and we got our products out the door. In the meantime those books took up space on my shelf and ended up being more for impressing people who walked into my cubicle (remember cubicles?). Now in my home office two of the three are makeshift monitor stands. I'm finally going to try to dispose of them somehow without harming the environment. I think they're recyclable.