Peter, >PS.. I wonder if there is any connection between the exporting of software engineering jobs to India etc. and this trend to see design as a mechanical, tool-driven process? Real insight is rather harder to export. > > I am from "etc." so I may lack proper "insight", but I'd rather blame the (western) "Loose weight without excersises" => "Generate some software from your UML charts in seconds" wave. Nobody is telling (especially young / new) people that software engineering is a hard discipline, despite the ease to get started. Regards, Wojtek