Teaching Object-Oriented Modeling and UML to Various Audiences

This paper summarizes the experience of teaching object-oriented modeling and UML for more than a decade to var-ious audiences (academic or corporate, software developers or not). We present the characteristics of the audiences. We investigate which modeling concepts are well accepted and which are not. We identify a number of general problems: background of attendees, object-oriented language as a pre-requisite, limitations of tools, methodological issues, impact of company organizations. We propose (partial) solutions and a list of pragmatic advices