Ramsay Millar on trends in software process improvement

An interesting read is this DDJ article by Ramsay Millar in which he describes these trends he sees happening in software process improvement:

• A shift towards more collaborative, role-based teamwork and away from the "lone wolf" IT culture of code-and-fix.
• A wish to close the gap between business requirements and software delivery by applying an agile process and best-of-breed automation to the entire software development life cycle.
• An increasing acceptance and sophistication of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard.