5.0. Integration Goals

When integrating the UML into our environment, we must consider the benefits we wish to realize from its use. Ironically, some organizations often attempt to utilize a technology without having a clear vision of the benefits they wish to gain from it. In this section, we discuss the different ways that we can use the UML in our development efforts, which we call our integration goal. In Section 5.1, we discuss the integration factors that impact our goals when adopting an overall UML integration strategy.

Figure 5.1 illustrates two aspects that impact our integration efforts. A development approach defines the degree to which our development team will use a common UML vision to specify a system, whereas a tool approach ...

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