Conway’s Law. The relationship between Agile and DevOps. Autonomy vs. alignment. Inversion of control. The false promise of “loose Agile.” The difficulty of assessing team health. The critical role of change management. Why you don’t want to buy a “box of Agile.” The surprising influence of physical architecture on team productivity. The importance of flowers.

These are just some of the important topics that New Relic Developer Evangelist Tori Wieldt, and I discuss with Brent Miller, a principal engineer and architect in New Relic's Portland engineering headquarters in the latest episode of the New Relic Modern Software Podcast.