Go ahead and remind the class what Bioware's parent company is again.

"Short development cycle". That shit's making me sick. More from a learning dev's POV – Learning both how to do it right, with all the UML fanfare, and "agile development" bullshit (These things eschew creativity so much that one of their methodologies is literally named "Agile").

The old "do it right in the first try" outside of corporate critical applications is dead? You only deliver quality code to people who have the power to sue your ass to oblivion over a little glitch in the euro sign?