BONUS: Guest Post on History of Engineering Excellence at Microsoft

Jon DeVaan shares some history of "EE" at Microsoft along with the original "Engineering Excellence" memo that started the efforts.

This post is guest authored by Jon DeVaan (JonDe, and @jondevaan). He builds on the previous post 087. Reorg! Why Are We Together, Exactly? detailing his parallel efforts at building at rebuilding the engineering culture starting in the early 2000s he referred to as Engineering Excellence.