Drawing things on whiteboards to see the architecture, absolutely. The more formalism it has and the more it was insisted on was always a strong signal that wa

Drawing things on whiteboards to see the architecture, absolutely. The more formalism it has and the more it was insisted on was always a strong signal that was was happening was a middle management cargo cult and not actually useful work. I believe that there exist organizations that derived value from this sort of thing, I just haven't seen them.