[jasonblurb]

Have you looked at Trello? I think it's good for small, rapid-fire issues. Each card on a Trello board can be "flipped over" to add substantially more detail, too - so it scales nicely to larger tasks that need to traverse the same pipeline.

My team uses Jira, but I'd consider migrating to Trello if our workload looked like what you're describing.

[byteofbits]

I've used Trello a couple years ago for some personal planning but hadn't thought to try it. I'll give it a spin and see how it feels.

My gut feeling is that the Kanban / Board model might not be a good fit here because the state is really a binary (not-fixed/fixed) and most kanban systems struggle to represent that cleanly.