# | Title | Moral | Year | Created | Modified | Place | DocType | CrossRef | Ready? | Gender | Category | Questions | |
|---|
| 80 | There is no perfect software | There is no perfect software, but there is better recovery | 2005 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | STC | Story | | No | Male | Operations Mgmt | | 1 |
| 195 | Don't hit the ball in the drink | Psych in, not out | 1995 | 12/27/2006 | 06/19/2011 | HPMD | Story | | No | | Change Mgmt | | 2 |
| 79 | The Telephone as an Anchor | System adoption by anchoring to what is known | 2005 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | STC | Story | | No | Male | Strategy,Training | | 3 |
| 184 | Good filters, clear water | Strategy is about choice: filtering in the yes, and out the no | 2006 | 10/05/2006 | 11/20/2016 | STC | Story | | No | | Change Mgmt,People Mgmt,Quality | | 4 |
| 59 | Change the Box | Change the box; don't take "black box" processes as a given | 2003 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | STC | Story | | Yes | Male | Process Mgmt | 1) What process steps will you change in your current or next pro | 5 |
| 58 | Don't Bet Against the Network | Don't bet against the network | 2003 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | STC | Story | | Yes | Male | Strategy | 1) Are Internet connections changing fast enough to wait? How do | 6 |
| 153 | Remember me? | It's about the relationship, stupid. | 1987 | 06/02/2006 | 06/19/2011 | DBC | Story | | No | | Service | | 7 |
| 108 | Who cares about prompts? | Cool features on an old platform miss the boat | 1981 | 03/27/2006 | 10/02/2023 | IDC | Story | | No | Male | Project Mgmt,Paradigms | | 8 |
| 291 | The Big Rocks | To be strategic, you need to put the big rocks in first | 2010 | 07/04/2011 | 09/27/2022 | NetHope | Story | | Yes | Female | Strategy | 1) What are the Big Rocks in your department? in your organizatio | 9 |
| 10 | The Conservation of Typing | Don't forget that computing is about taking work out of the system! | 1982 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | | Yes | Male | Project Mgmt | 1) How can you take work out of your latest project? 2) What piec | 10 |
| 453 | The Jam Shake | Waste not, want not | 2016 | 12/31/2016 | 12/09/2018 | Lisbon | Story | | No | Male | Values | | 11 |
| 203 | Muscle Memory | Practice creates a safety net of memory underneath the memory | 2007 | 02/04/2007 | 06/19/2011 | STC | Story | | No | | Execution | | 12 |
| 401 | Where does it hurt? | A powerful image can communicate the enormity of the problem | 2015 | 10/08/2016 | 11/20/2016 | IFRC | Story | | No | Female | Communication | | 13 |
| 369 | Minimum Viable Product | When Less is More | 2015 | 07/26/2016 | 07/26/2016 | IFRC | Story | | No | | Project Mgmt | | 14 |
| 247 | The Bump Into Factor | Put the new in the middle of the path | 2002 | 06/02/2008 | 10/27/2023 | STC | Story | | Yes | Female | Communication | 1) What is the one thing you want everyone on your team to know? | 15 |
| 423 | Grants and IT Costs | Factor IT costs in each program grant | 2005 | 11/02/2016 | 11/20/2016 | STC | Story | | No | Female | Finance | | 16 |
| 281 | Ping-Pong Victory | Never give up | 1974 | 10/12/2009 | 12/08/2021 | Exxon | Story | | No | Male | Values,Persistence,Failure | | 17 |
| 20 | The End of Coding | Feature freeze, or the point at which all required features has been added to the system, is the mid-point of the development cycle, not the end-point | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | | Yes | Female | Project Mgmt | 1) What are the steps required to launch new software in your org | 18 |
| 451 | Share and Do | For collaboration, the agenda must shift from "do, then share" to "share, then do." | 2011 | 12/06/2016 | 10/27/2023 | Bellagio | Story | | No | Female | Strategy | | 19 |
| 400 | The Taxi Driver | People are impacted by the big picture | 2015 | 10/08/2016 | 10/08/2016 | IFRC | Story | | No | | Leadership | | 20 |
| 40 | The Dinner Invitation | A project is a partnership is a relationship | 2000 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | St. Francis | Story | | Yes | Female | Project Mgmt | 1) What would indicate customer delight for your customers? 2) Ha | 21 |
| 388 | The Young Navigator | Translate into your audiences' frames of reference | 1962 | 09/23/2016 | 10/27/2023 | West Babylon | Story | | Yes | Female | Communication | 1) has this new situation happened before? 2) Is this like someth | 22 |
| 288 | The Frog and the Train | If you don't move, you get hit by the train | 2009 | 12/21/2009 | 11/21/2016 | STC | Story | | Yes | Female | Change Mgmt,Strategy | 1) What would you do: Call a train a train? Look before you leap? | 23 |
| 348 | Branching out | There is a time to leave the nest and step out on a limb | 2016 | 05/19/2016 | 05/19/2016 | IFRC | Story | | No | | People Mgmt | | 24 |
| 426 | Boi Cavalo | Push the edge and watch your customers react | 2016 | 11/03/2016 | 11/20/2023 | Sabbatical | Story | | Yes | Female | Strategy,Innovation | 1) What are the risks of testing new things on your customers? Wh | 25 |
| 113 | Project Autopsies | Uncover the lessons learned | 1986 | 04/10/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | | No | Male | Project Mgmt | | 26 |
| 447 | Tech for Good, Tech for Bad | The prophets and the priests of technology can learn from each other | 2011 | 12/03/2016 | 10/27/2023 | IFRC | Story | | No | Female | Ethics,Paradigms | | 27 |
| 296 | The Truck | Our #1 goal as nonprofit IT people is to move our missions forward | 2008 | 07/04/2011 | 10/27/2023 | NetHope | Story | | Yes | Female | Vision | 1) Can you state how each of your projects contributes to the mis | 28 |
| 104 | Write the Ad | Make mission mindshare | 1995 | 03/15/2006 | 02/13/2023 | HPMD | Story | | No | Male | Strategy | | 29 |
| 356 | In the tent | Keep your critics close | 2014 | 06/03/2016 | 06/03/2016 | NetHope | Story | | No | | Values,Leadership | | 30 |