Something a little different for this article, we have a guest writer!. My colleague at DSH Workshops Joerg Hampel discussing how he took my State Machine stuff and made a lovely PlantUML visualisation tool for it (also made it using user events rather than queues). It's pretty damned cool..
There is a lot more talk about design reviews, code reviews and project postmortems and that is brilliant. Some of what I hear is slightly inaccurate and this article seeks to clarify..