What Design Methodology does EA use?

[pjbowers]

I'm researching CASE tools and found EA to meet most of my requirement as a quality CASE tool, however I can't figure out what Design Methodology EA follows. I believe it most closely follows the Booch method listed by Booch and Pressman. Does anyone agree or disagree? Any information you have would help. Thanks -Paul

[sargasso]

I would say that, more properly EA implements the current invocation of the UML 2.0 notational specification as published by OMG with some significantly helpful extensions.

The design methodology is up to you.  People on this bb use different methods - RUP (IBM/Rational), generalised UP based methods, the "Iconix" (modified OOSE) and various flavours thereof,  and many many more (including "miracle occurs here" and other forms of witchcraft  

EA is an extremely flexible and tailorable tool (one might even go as far as saying "tool set").  It suports activities across the entire system lifecycle in a single integrated package.  How and where you use EA is again up to you.

hth
Bruce