🚀 Shaping the Future of Documentation and Traceability Together 🚀 A sincere thank you to our 36 participants from 16 companies who joined our recent Sphinx-Needs User Group meeting! Your collaboration and insights are the driving force behind our solutions—Sphinx-Needs, ubCode, and ubTrace—within the engineering-as-code ecosystem. 🌟 Key Takeaways: 1️⃣ Bottom-Up Integration: Start with your existing toolchain and integrate Sphinx-Needs to always remain release-ready. 2️⃣ Ontology for Configuration and Checks: This concept sparked engaging discussions—watch this space! 3️⃣ No One-Size-Fits-All: Flexibility remains the key to achieving meaningful outcomes. Special Thanks to our outstanding Speakers: 🎤 Erwin Roth & Arwed Starke (CARIAD / Bosch Alliance) Presented strategies for scaling Sphinx-Needs to effectively manage projects with over 1,000 contributors. 🎤 Jens Walther & Radek Hampl (Continental) Outlined the integration of Sphinx-Needs within CAEdge, showcasing visualizations using the sphinx_needs_data_explorer. 🎤 Philip Partsch (ETAS) Shared insights into ETAS’s use of Sphinx-Needs to achieve ASPICE and ISO 26262 compliance and demonstrated the "x-as-code" approach for streamlining engineering workflows. 🎤 Nirmal Sasidharan (Bosch) Explored how docs-as-code is revolutionizing automotive documentation and architecture modeling, comparing lightweight and highly semantic approaches using Sphinx-Needs. 🎤 Nic Knapp (TUM Venture Labs / UnternehmerTUM) Explained the importance of connecting tools and processes to simplify ASPICE assessments and ensure compliance. 🎤 Maximilian Nitsche (IBM) Delivered an engaging talk on the role of Generative AI Agents in automating and enhancing requirements management. During a highly productive feature voting session, we identified the following top priorities to drive future innovation and enhance developer productivity: 🔥 Ontology Model (Configuration and Checks) 🔥 Documentation-Containers similar to libraries 🔥 Faster Builds for Enhanced Performance A huge thank you to all the organizations involved—CARIAD, Mercedes-Benz AG, BMW Group, Bosch, ETAS, DENSO, Continental, MHP – A Porsche Company, Qorix, PiNTeam, IBM, Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle, FEDERATE, UnternehmerTUM, BinaryCore | a KEARNEY company, TMT CoPilots —for shaping the future of software documentation and traceability with us. 🛠️ ➕ Follow useblocks: Don’t miss our next user group meeting! Together, we’re redefining how software is documented and traced. #SphinxNeeds #EngineeringAsCode #DocsAsCode #Traceability #Documentation #Ontology #AllAsCode #ASPICE