Visio Templates for UML 2.0

Recently discovered these excellent UML 2.0 Stencils and Templates for Visio by Pavel Hruby.

While I am still waiting for my ideal UML drawing tool, I keep coming back to Visio. It is much better than Rose and better performing than Poseidon (you also don’t get that daft fish dude in the background as you do with Poseidon exports).

With IBM’s UML 2.0 article and the book UML 2 For Dummies, I can express what I want to without getting to bogged down in implmentation detail too early, yet I can give that level of detail when I need to. My only problem is when I turn up on customer sites having been sold as an Architect and I have a copy of UML 2 For Dummies under my arm. At least I am setting expectations early…