--- title: "How Not to Fight with Product Managers" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-not-to-fight-with-product-managers-6q5lt2fwq source_url: https://tech.trivago.com/post/2026-02-02-how-not-to-fight-with-product-managers-as-a-developer/ type: article source: "Tech at trivago" published: 2026-02-03T15:13:07.369Z updated: 2026-02-03T15:13:28.287Z tags: ["devops", "monitoring", "sre"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Not to Fight with Product Managers **[Tech at trivago](https://daily.dev/sources/trivago)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Service Level Objectives (SLOs) provide a data-driven framework to align developers and product managers by establishing clear reliability targets. Instead of debating speed versus quality, teams can use error budgets to make objective decisions: when within budget, ship features; when budget is exhausted, focus on stability. The approach transforms subjective arguments into measurable agreements based on user expectations, with practical examples showing how 99.9% uptime translates to 43 minutes of allowable downtime per month. Implementation requires iterative refinement, starting with achievable targets and gradually increasing reliability goals based on observed performance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Non-Functional Requirements: SLIs, SLOs, SLAs & Error Budgets](https://daily.dev/posts/non-functional-requirements-slis-slos-slas-error-budgets-y1asodvwo) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why Your Observability Strategy Should Start With SLOs](https://daily.dev/posts/why-your-observability-strategy-should-start-with-slos-sdmnzg8qo) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#monitoring](https://daily.dev/tags/monitoring), [#sre](https://daily.dev/tags/sre) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-not-to-fight-with-product-managers-6q5lt2fwq)