> For me it helps me the most with defining classes, assigning responsibilities to the appropriate object, and handling Processess cleanly.

I'm particularly interested in your use of it with processes. I want to move to UML standards for object modeling, to use a commonly understood protocol (I've been happily drawing Booch clouds for a long time but, of course, they're obsolete), but am thinking that I can make my life easier by also using it for processes, particularly interactions. I find that visually mapping very dynamic interactions is a big challenge. Have you been able to satisfactorily model complex processes form several angles? IOW, does the clarity and efficiency of the "picture"using UML exceed that of old-fashioned text narrative?

Thanks for the input. In addition to getting the benefit of someone else's experience, I was also interested, given the "Where oh where have the good coders gone...." thread, in seeing how many people are using this documentation method.