Together was a UML-as-code tool, and I never saw how you could deploy a working system using it. We used it for a while, having entire separate 'code' projects to maintain artifacts.
One team tried to use it within their project. Together helpfully would delete a bunch of code when someone decided to start over fresh on a diagram. The lesson Together taught me was, sometimes optimizing/automating part of a process is just a bad idea.
IMHO, UML worked best when you actually built diagrams to show a relationship or part of a process, rather than treating it as some sort of generated view of the system. A full class diagram for any non-trivial system is a bird's nest. A full sequence diagram conveys nothing to the reader that the code itself wouldn't.
There's a reason most repair manuals are illustrated with more than a single exploded view of the full car.
Also - Rational was very much trying to break waterfall by going solidly toward more cyclic processes. It was just geared to be a very formal (but adaptable) model. I would argue that Agile was actually still part of an evolutionary chain from RUP - but 'sold' in an entirely different manner.
One team tried to use it within their project. Together helpfully would delete a bunch of code when someone decided to start over fresh on a diagram. The lesson Together taught me was, sometimes optimizing/automating part of a process is just a bad idea.
IMHO, UML worked best when you actually built diagrams to show a relationship or part of a process, rather than treating it as some sort of generated view of the system. A full class diagram for any non-trivial system is a bird's nest. A full sequence diagram conveys nothing to the reader that the code itself wouldn't.
There's a reason most repair manuals are illustrated with more than a single exploded view of the full car.
Also - Rational was very much trying to break waterfall by going solidly toward more cyclic processes. It was just geared to be a very formal (but adaptable) model. I would argue that Agile was actually still part of an evolutionary chain from RUP - but 'sold' in an entirely different manner.