Craig Larman

An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis & design

I acquired this book as a result of a course I took. I have never really had the opportunity to use UML on the job. But the idea sounded great. This book supports the excellent ideas inherent in this approach.

This is an excellent book on OO analysis and design. Despite the title suggest, it provide a comprehensive illustration on iterative development process, requirement analysis, OO design, applying UML, applying well known design patterns, and it also provide introductory materials on architectural analysis, packaging, as well as agile development method.
The material covered by this book is quite wide, with reasonable depth on most topics.

The clearest book about the software development process. The title is somewhat misleading, this is not a book only about UML, but digs deep into the whole software lifecycle showing which artifacts you need at every stage of the development process, and which information to expect in each one of them. If yo still haven't got what the UML is really for, this is the book.