World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Leading with Reliability: Applying SRE Principles to Build Stronger Engineering Organizations

Maxim Schepelin

Are your uptime metrics actually vanity numbers? SRE principles offer far more than operational stability. Learn to strategically use error budgets to manage technical debt and accelerate product innovation.

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#1 about 2 min

Applying reliability principles to software engineering leadership

Adopting a reliability mindset helps leaders strengthen organizational design and software architecture beyond just technical infrastructure.

#2 about 7 min

Mapping business criticality to surface organizational gaps

Assessing revenue and compliance obligations reveals hidden architectural bottlenecks and communication overhead in engineering teams.

#3 about 5 min

Defining service-level indicators based on user behavior

Moving beyond basic uptime metrics to measure technical health provides deeper insight into actual user interactions and business outcomes.

#4 about 7 min

Aligning team dependencies using service-level objectives

Setting clear threshold expectations with downstream dependencies enables teams to evaluate the financial impact of technical improvements.

#5 about 5 min

Balancing system stability and innovation with error budgets

Using deliberate failure allowances helps engineering managers decide when to deploy code continuously or enforce strict freezes for system stability.

#6 about 4 min

Summarizing SRE concepts and prioritizing technical debt backlogs

Reviewing high-leverage organizational practices provides clear strategies for justifying technical debt backlog items using operational metrics.

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Advocating for SRE practices within agency environments

Martin Beránek · LIVE

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Integrating service level objectives into incident management

Diana Todea · LIVE

1:42 min

Pitching technical resiliency initiatives to business decision makers

Mihaela-Roxana Ghidersa · LIVE

3:50 min

Scaling shift left practices within large engineering organizations

Chris Riley · World Congress 2021

2:25 min

Building engineering cultures that support long-term software architecture

Oskar Kruschitz

Oskar Kruschitz · Europe 2026 Virtual

2:01 min

Focusing on core software quality attributes for foundational resilience

Mihaela-Roxana Ghidersa · LIVE

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