Too often, organizations that create software view modeling as a form of documentation that is performed, if time permits, to represent existing software.  This view is simply not justifiable for any non-trivial application.  The human mind is far better at visualizing software structure through graphical means than through textual representations. When properly used, today's breed of modeling tools provide checks and conceptual enforcements that can prevent many architecture and design defects from ever making it to the code.

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