Chrome Extension for Engineering Metrics: Track Productivity in Browser
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Most engineering analytics platforms ask for a weekend before you see your first chart. OAuth into GitHub. Hook up Jira. Wait for the next deploy to backfill DORA. Convince Security to approve a webhook. Meanwhile the original question, "are we actually shipping faster after the reorg?", is two sprints stale.
A Chrome extension flips the order: install, log in, and you have signal from GitHub, GitLab, and Jira inside 30 seconds. No backend, no integrations review, no Looker license. That speed comes with sharp limits. This post covers what such an extension actually does, where it wins, and the slice of work it will never see.