The various times I've encountered effective UML, it's been an organization's take on how to use it. I can't remember if the UML Distilled book references this

The various times I've encountered effective UML, it's been an organization's take on how to use it. I can't remember if the UML Distilled book references this kind of dialectic use but it seems like the only way I've seen buy-in for use and maintaining the diagrams as documentation.