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We've been using Monday.com for several months now and it does most of what you are looking for.
One of the first web apps I ever wrote was an internal cms/issue tracker...still in use to this day! 
The problem is that it takes time and effort to manage it and keep it up to date...it becomes a chore unto itself. Personally, I have been neck deep in one project for the last 4 months and haven't even checked the board once during that time. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I think I've heard of Monday.com, looks really good!
I'll keep that one in the back of my head for later.
kmoorevs wrote: The problem is that it takes time and effort to manage it and keep it up to date...it becomes a chore unto itself.
I did that with my hour registration and invoicing system.
Can confirm the time and effort 
It works exactly how I want it to though 
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Hi All,
The project I am on at the moment to design a test rig for is awkward. People have done the Cool stuff and not not the boring engineering behind it. The issue is the product seems to work but I am not allowed to see the inner workings as 'I don't need to' despite the fact I was put in to design the test rig for production I. I started to lay one of the boards out as a question was met by a 'don't worry about that', shortly afterward the board were taken away from me and given to a new Grad in there department as he need experience laying out boards.
A couple of Prototypes were taken away for EMC testing this week, last week a big mind meld happened lots of swearing at GIT. I get the feeling all is not well, my boss has the opinion if they don't ask for help don't help them. It's all getting horribly political... 
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Odds are, the "grad" would like to stay in touch. Send an email with a casual "I heard ... and BTW .. and good luck!" If he wants, he'll respond and if you're still somehow attached to the project, you can direct it that way.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Offer to help, 'R&D only, Stay in Production'! I'm getting a little frustrated about this.
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Sounds like a goat![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) in progress  ...
(we've had that sort of thing where I toil away the hours)
Software Zen: delete this;
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Talking to others today there seems to be a vendatta against R&D (I'm Production) why Oh why can't we all get along...
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At one time we had "castle walls" between software engineering, hardware engineering, and quality assurance. The relationships were deliberately adversarial.
One advantage of the company going through bankruptcy and 65% attrition in the engineering workforce is that QA no longer exists and my boss is in charge of both the software and hardware development folks.
We work together to get the job done, imagine that.
Software Zen: delete this;
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First place I've ever worked where Electronics is split. Everywhere else it's Electronics, Software, Software do all the non-embedded stuff, here R&D design something Production them have to work out how to build it. It will not end well.
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: It will not end well
I'm afraid it does sound like that. Good luck.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Apologies as this might not resonate with people from certain countries e.g. Left Ponders.
He dismisses my flying hat (4, 6)
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Fast bowler - dismisses (batters at cricket)
flying - fast
hat - bowler
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well done, didn't think it would be that quick!
YAUM
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I'm astonished to discover that I can actually answer this one, given my atypical interest in the area! I've nothing for Monday though and a hectic weekend (starting in a few minutes) so will leave it for someone else. NOt needed as already solved!
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I hate them, but I'm being forced to use them more often, especially in the field. Sadly, I can't see that the state of the art has advanced one bit in 20 years. They all have lousy performance, and none are useable in daylight. Has anyone here found a product that actually works "out there?"
Will Rogers never met me.
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You can't do better than a really good piece of slate, a quality chisel, and a nice mahogany mallet.
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Looks like a patentable idea if not already solved.
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There are the Panasonic Toughbook series but...
Price is so incredibly high that, unless you need them in an area where safety of life and limb is at stake, it doesn't make much sense to use them (IMHO). Some of my customers with money to spare bought them just to discover that they become obsolete in 3 to 5 years like any other laptop and you've spent north of 5000$ for a piece of obsolete junk.
Mircea
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A thing I can't quite understand is the 'your no longer tied to a desk'. The stuff that's plugged into mine... It's a Lenovo it's seems Okay (USB can be a little picky...). The only real use I think is for 'Hot Desking' which if you are doing anything not based around standard office paper work doesn't work (for me at least!) & during Covid it was quick to work from home (at the start I had to remote into my desktop).
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Roger Wright wrote: They all have lousy performance
What the heck are you doing with them? 
I know very few people who don't use a laptop for work these days and no one complains about performance.
I have two friends who use a desktop for heavy AutoCAD work, but that's about it.
For gaming it's a different matter, of course.
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My company issued laptop is what I use primarily for all my work including development.
They typically last for a few years and then I put in a requisition for a new one.
Our laptops are good, but not as good as I would like them to be. Definitely not as performant as my home/personal PC, but that is because my company does not want to pay the extra money for really good laptops (I get it, saving money and all).
I do prefer PC towers over laptops, but they do make excellent, powerful laptops now ($$).
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I get that companies standardize on hardware, but I figured that a happy employee is a good employee.
So I simply asked my employee if he had any specific wishes for a laptop, especially since he's allowed to use it privately as well, gave him a budget for a good laptop (which is about €1700) and told him he could order a more expensive one as well, but if it got too expensive we'd have to talk money.
The only condition was that it had to be Windows because his job would be to write Windows applications (more and more multi-platform, but, unfortunately, still some .NET Framework and even WinForms as well).
He ordered some HP flipbook he wanted toghether with a mechinal keyboard that's got me frustrated every time I have to help him with some code.
All in all that cost me about €200 extra, but let's say he wanted some gaming laptop and it cost me €1200 extra.
That's €1200 for a happy employee, an absolute bargain!
I think happy employees are worth a lot more than standardized hardware.
He's not only happy because he has the laptop he wanted, but also because I took his wishes into consideration.
I know from my time as an employee that's pretty rare, yet it goes a looooong way in employee happiness!
The same applies to a company car, work hours, work from home, study courses, etc.
Of course there's a limit, especially when the employee already makes a lot of money, but don't be too greedy when it comes to employees.
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You would be a great guy to work for, Sander, and I agree on all points.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Thanks, doing my best! 
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