The Engaging Way

Humans for domain analysis

Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

Laurie Voss suggests that AI will solve software operations, then security, but be unable to perform competent requirements discovery, which will be up to humans. One way to do this work is using Business Operations Notation & Development (BON/D).

Adam S KhanDesigner/developer

The Engaging Way

Outsource identity, but manage access internally

Monday, November 2nd, 2026

Identity providers can tell a platform who someone is. The platform must still decide what that person—or an agent acting on their behalf—may do.

Adam S KhanDesigner/developer

The Engaging Way

Enabling the Exponential Organization

Thursday, October 15th, 2026

In the wake of Salim Ismail's book Exponential Organizations, a global network of coaches grew to bring the book’s ideas into organizations. Engaging OS enables the realization of these ideas.

Adam S KhanDesigner/developer

The Engaging Way

Be the ball: Role & port modeling for software systems

Friday, February 13th, 2026

In speccing software systems, each operation that users will perform can be expressed as a sentence—an active one requiring subject, verb, object, and optional adverbials, clauses and asides. If we also model each interface where these operations occur, then we have a complete, potentially executable specification.

Adam S KhanDesigner/developer

The Engaging Way

Advent of the Autos: AutoPort and AutoConsole in Engaging OS

Wednesday, December 24th, 2025

Until now, adding new screens to an Engaging OS system meant writing code. Many screens can now be configured rather than developed, making the creation of rich interfaces startlingly easy.

Adam S KhanDesigner/developer