AI Made Us 4x Faster. User Adoption Is the New Speed Limit Now | Sharon Hunt, VP Product (JLL)

November 10th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  30 mins 53 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

Everyone says building is free now. But when today’s guest pointed AI at her eight-year-old commercial real estate platform, it choked on the same messy code her new engineers did.

So she paused major feature development for six months and rebuilt for AI first. Now her team ships four times faster, and the new speed limit isn’t engineering - it's how much change humans can absorb.

Sharon Hunt is the VP of Product Management at JLL. In this episode, she shares:

• How a team of four rewrote a key user-facing portal in a single quarter instead of a year, and became the playbook for 70 engineers
• Why the real speed limit has become the pace of human adoption, and how that’s led to larger, more feature-packed releases than she’s seen since Agile became a trend over a decade ago
• And how rallying the team around customer benefit metrics has developers prototyping fixes on-premise with customers, the same day they spot a problem