Whether or not UML works depends mostly on the people who use it. Not on whether they are smart or not -- it fits with some mindsets and clashes with some other

Whether or not UML works depends mostly on the people who use it. Not on whether they are smart or not -- it fits with some mindsets and clashes with some others. I have seen very-very good C++ programmers who worked with roundtrip engineering tools (Together) and diagram was always the first. (And the project went well.)