 | "My colleagues immediately liked Reverse Semantic Traceability and almost everybody uses it now. We use the procedure we learned during a training session for quality improvement: when a change is made to the code, the textual description of the original change request is restored to validate its correctness. As a side effect, the code rapidly became self-documented - this is what the management team tried to achieve for many months by enforcing coding standards. Now it is accomplished without insisting it be accomplished. The pride of a job well-done is always the best motivation."
James K, Project Manager
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| "This is a wonderful means to build the team. It reveals leaders and creates more expressive design. Moreover, speechless mode encourages focusing on ideas, but not on the words which explain those ideas. The absence of verbal communication promotes more effective information exchange and prevents repeating meaningless 'buzzword-bingo' words."
Alex K, Architect
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| "Using Speechless Modeling sessions, our designers now spend one day on a design task that previously required five days to complete. However, it takes so much energy from the designers that they are usually not able to work the following day. We now give this day off for the designers to recover. Ultimately, we spend two days on a task which would have previously required five days."
Boris B, Project Manager
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| "Reverse Semantic Traceability helps verify the diagrams quality and the level of domain understanding by designers. It also allows you to formalize the problem statement, eliminate ambiguities and reveal assumptions, clarifying the task definition for the team, and even for the customer."
Alex V, Architect
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| "This is a very practical methodology, because it does not require extra resources. It allows you to describe the task much more accurately. It is also a good team building approach."
Steve J, Senior Software Engineer
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| "The verbal communication restriction increases the effectiveness of each team member, and allows for only focusing on the model designing."
Roman D, Project Manager
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| "I like the organization and the whole idea of the event. After the event, my vision of team development has changed a lot."
Dennis S, University Student
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| "I liked the event very much. Speechless mode helps me to concentrate. It is an excellent UML training."
Max W, University Student
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| "Speechless session was outstanding! I enjoyed it very much. I really got a huge amount of experience."
Josh C, University Student
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| "The time I spent was a great benefit. Advantages for me: a) this modeling experience is needed as a practical assignment to apply the theoretical knowledge; b) I realized that the same notation can be understood differently by different people."
Elena M, University Instructor
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