| # | Person-Source | Ready? | Title | Moral | |
| Anonymous
( 1 Story ) |
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| 298 | | No | Stone Soup | What are you building? | |
| Edward Happ ( 622 Stories ) |
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| 0.1 | | Yes | Title Page | | |
| 0.2 | | Yes | Copyright | | |
| 0.4 | | No | Chronology | Every story has a setting | |
| 0.5 | | Yes | Introduction | | |
| 0.6 | | Yes | Cast of Characters | Every story has a character or two | |
| 1 | | Yes | First Impressions | First impressions are lasting | |
| 2 | | Yes | We're Going to Be Great Writers | Positive expectations are powerful | |
| 3 | Carol Heitner | Yes | Draw a Picture | When it comes to strategy, a picture is worth a thousand words | |
| 4 | Mrs. Mandrakia | Yes | You Can Be Anything You Want To Be | Have faith in your employees | |
| 5 | | Yes | Assemble the Components | Assembly is easier and faster than creating from scratch | |
| 6 | | Yes | Leave your Signature | Style matters; leave your signature | |
| 7 | | Yes | Technology Without the Technology | Speak technology in nontechnical terms | |
| 8 | | Yes | Time, Process and People | The tighter the time frame the less concern for process and people | |
| 9 | | Yes | The Lego's Lesson | Leadership is situational | |
| 10 | Brian Kernighan | Yes | The Conservation of Typing | Don't forget that computing is about taking work out of the system! | |
| 11 | | Yes | Letting Go | Delegating means delegating ownership and letting go | |
| 12 | | Yes | What's the Next Step? | People work harder, and take pride in, achieving new levels, even if "in place" | |
| 13 | | Yes | Build the Throwaway | Build a prototype to meet a basic need; embellish later | |
| 14 | | Yes | The Wine Bet | An audacious goal is powerful | |
| 15 | | Yes | Counting the Simple | Increasing client contact with good, helpful people, increases sales | |
| 16 | | Yes | Taking the Wrong Job | Doing something you don't like to do is not a way to move up | |
| 17 | | Yes | How to Work for a Sonofabitch | Figuratively go around to other's side of the table and get angry at the problem facing us, rather than each other. | |
| 18 | David @NCC | Yes | Seven Hundred Names, One at a Time | Great service is a relationship and its personal | |
| 19 | | Yes | Service Legends II | Excellent service is legendary | |
| 20 | | Yes | 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 | |
| 21 | | Yes | The Catered Lunch | Team selected awards can be simple, inexpensive and powerful | |
| 22 | Doug Smith | Yes | Ratchet up the productivity | Setting action items ratchets up the productivity | |