Alex Bell vs. Silver Bullets

I guess a blog called The Jaded Developer should occasionally have a development related post. I recently came across a post by some Boeing software architect that I liked, a nice little rant about so-called "silver bullets".

The fact that a diagram has been created using the UML leads some to believe that the associated design is guaranteed to be implementable and ready for development, even if the laws of physics were ignored as constraints.

I really like the pragmatic view of software development people like Mr. Bell and Joel Spolsky have on software development.