  An integral use of the model driven development paradigm influences and
changes an organization's software development division rather heavily. Such a
paradigm reduces some tasks in complexity and costs, but also introduces new
tasks and, if introduced seriously, has severe affects on activities and roles
in the software development process. As the model becomes the most important
development artifact, there are new challenges to the development team, e. g.
assessing the model's quality, model partitioning and configuration management
for distributed teams, setup of build management, tool chaining and tracing of
information through the various artifacts. Organizations coping with model
driven development need to successfully introduce new tools and new ways of
thinking, they are challenged in adopting their processes and training their
staff. This paper presents an ongoing research project on the assessment of the
usability of modeling and model driven development at a global industrial
organization with its headquarters in Germany. The matter of interest is the
analysis of the usability of modeling (especially with the UML) and model
driven development by accomplishing an empirical, quantitative survey.
