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.

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 make 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

Links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sriramviyer/

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Special Guest: Sriram Iyer.