I spend at least half my time (sometimes as much as 70% of my time) planning an application. I use different tools to record my plan (word processors, dbf tables, excel spreadsheets) but when the plan is complete, I basically have to start from scratch to develop the application. It seems to me that I am wasting a lot of time because many objects developed in the plan could be created almost automatically.

I have looked at several development enviroments but they help in the development but not in the planning. Does anyone know of a good planning tool that I can use that will automate some of the development as well.

Thanks

Larry