LaunchPod: How AI Helped Me Ship 9 Months of Product in 5 Days

LaunchPod is a product management podcast hosted by LogRocket’s VP of Marketing, Jeff Wharton, where he talks to product leaders about the issues they faced in their careers, how they found solutions to those issues, and how you can apply these solutions in your own day-to-day product role.

A program manager told Sriram Iyer it would take 6 to 9 months to ship the first slice of their new product. Sriram challenged the team to do it in just five days.

At first, they laughed. Then he rolled his sleeves up, dug in with the team, and they did it. 5 days, from Monday to Friday.

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Sriram has spent his career walking into companies like Salesforce, Adobe, and Freshworks, and pulling timelines apart. He calls himself the simplifier in chief, and the secret isn’t the AI tooling. It’s everything underneath the AI tooling that most leaders won’t actually do. That’s what makes teams trust and follow him.

In this episode, Sriram breaks down exactly how that five-day sprint worked, including:

• The “thinnest slice of pizza” principle that kills scope creep before it starts
• Why AI made it possible — but isn’t really the point
• How to find the team members in any org who are actually ready to just make stuff happen — and why mindset matters more than tooling
• And why none of this works without trust, prioritization, taste, and an executive willing to get in the weeds and take personal responsibility for the outcome

Check out the full episode with Sriram here:

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