Manager's Companion

  The problem it solves Every engineering lead spends time each morning doing the same manual work: chasing Jira for what's open, figuring out who's actually available (leaves, holidays, on-call), checking for new incidents, and then hand-assembling all of it into a status update for their own manager. It's repetitive, error-prone, and it pulls senior people away from actually leading. Manager's Companion turns that 30–45 minute daily scramble into a two-minute, one-click report. What each lead is equipped with Instead of juggling five browser tabs and a spreadsheet, every lead gets one dashboard : Instead of… They now have… Manually querying Jira and copying numbers A live daily report generated in one click Guessing who's off or on-call An accurate, real-time availability & on-call view Finding out about incidents late An automatic incident monitor with instant desktop alerts Screenshotting messy dashboards for email A clean, presentation-ready report they can...

  Generate → copy crisp PNG → paste into Outlook. Done. 🖼️ Here's a small thing that used to steal a shocking amount of time: getting the report to actually look good in the email. You know the drill. You build the report, then comes the annoying part — screenshotting the screen, cropping it, watching the text go blurry, pasting it in, realizing it looks terrible, redoing it. Or worse, rebuilding the whole thing as an HTML table that breaks the moment it hits Outlook. The reporting was quick; the sharing was the tax. Manager's Companion kills that step. 🖼️ Save as image — export the whole report as a clean PNG, ready to attach. 📋 Copy image — one click puts a crisp 3× resolution PNG on your clipboard. Paste it straight into Outlook, Teams, Slack, anywhere. Sharp text, no blur, no cropping. 🖨️ Print / PDF — need the absolute sharpest text for a formal send? Print straight to PDF. That's it. Generate → copy → paste → send. Seconds, not minutes. One pro tip that mak...

  No server. No telemetry. Your Jira token never leaves your browser. 🔒 Let's talk about the question every good manager (and every security team) should ask before installing a tool that touches Jira: "Where is my data actually going?" With most productivity tools, the honest answer is: somewhere else. A vendor backend. A cloud database. An analytics pipeline you can't see. You hand over an API token and just… trust that it's fine. Manager's Companion is built the opposite way. 🚫 There is no server. None. The extension talks directly from your browser to your Atlassian site. There's no backend sitting in the middle to compromise, breach, or subpoena — because it doesn't exist. 🔑 Your Jira token never leaves your browser. Your base URL, email, and API token are stored locally in your browser profile and used only to call your Jira. They are never transmitted anywhere else. 📡 No telemetry. Nothing about your usage, your tickets, or your team ...

  Get a desktop ping the moment a new incident breaches SLA. 🚨 You already know the feeling. An incident's been open for hours, quietly aging past its SLA — and you find out when someone else asks about it. Now you're not managing the incident, you're managing the escalation. The problem was never that you don't care. It's that you can't sit staring at a Jira board all day. Between deployments, meetings, and everything else, incidents slip through simply because nobody was looking at that exact moment. So Manager's Companion watches for you. 🔎 You define what "an incident" means. Paste in your own JQL — open incidents, a specific issue type, a priority, whatever fits your team. No rigid presets. ⏱️ Set your SLA. The monitor flags incidents that are aging past your threshold, so "getting old" is visible before it's a problem. 🔔 Get pinged instantly. When a new incident appears, you get a desktop notification — even if the das...

  Your 'tickets closed' number is lying to you. Here's what it hides. Every status update has that one comforting number: "42 tickets closed this week." 📈 It looks like progress. Leadership nods. Everyone moves on. But "tickets closed" is the most flattering — and most misleading — metric in your report. Here's what it quietly hides: 🧊 Work that's started but silently stuck. A ticket can sit "In Progress" for three weeks, untouched, and never show up in your closed count. It's not done, it's not moving, and nobody's flagging it. The closed number doesn't blink. ⏱️ The slow tail that averages bury. "Average cycle time: 4 days" sounds fine — until you look at p85 and p95 and find the tickets that took 30. Averages hide your worst experiences. Your stakeholders remember the 30-day one. 🚌 Knowledge sitting with exactly one person. When all the open work on a component belongs to a single engineer, you don...