28 October 2009, Monetical Limited, Cambridge, the sole provider of an online consulting software platform tailored to support complex business change programmes undertaken by software and I.T organisations or consulting firms on behalf of their clients, accepts the British Computer Society's invitation to present a paper at its annual Configuration Management Special Interest Group (CMSG) and AGM in London on Thursday 22 October 2009.

The papaer titled 'History teaches us a lot', promotes the virtures of root cause analysis to optimise the performance of distributed software organisations. Managing change or preparing the release of a new application can be significantly enhanced if organisations look into their past. Evaluating the performance of previous change cycles or application releases provide a real and true insight into potential challenges and opportunities. Unfortunately, organisations are too enthralled in current activities to help themselves.

The presentation demonstrated, using real case examples, that investing just a little bit of time capturing both operational and commercial characteristics, including detailed root causes, organisations are able to build up their very own expert system, therefore reducing the need to call upon traditional management consultants to solve complex operational and commercial issues resulting in unplanned change or enhance their application release and support activities.

About BCS & CMSG

British Computer Society, The Chartered Institute for IT, promotes wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice. The BCS brings together industry, academics, practitioners and government to share knowledge, promote new thinking, inform the design of new curricula, shape public policy and inform the public. As a professional membership and accreditation body for IT, serving over 70,000 members including practitioners, businesses, academics and students, in the UK and internationally, it delivers a range of professional development tools for practitioners and employees. In particular, the CMSG was set up in 1995 to provide a forum for developing and promoting Configuration Management, as a discrete management process. The SIG facilitates the free and open exchange of CM ideas, experience and best practice at regular workshops and special events. For a comprehensive description of BCS and its services visit www.bcs.org

About Monetical

Based in Cambridge, UK, Monetical is a software organisation that creates value for software and I.T. companies by enabling them to constantly improve their performance and promoting best practices. Our ready-to-go global collaborative consulting software platform provides programme managers and consulting firms with cost-effective access to the appropriate industry expertise, unique analytical capabilities and predefined programme workflows for the identification and understanding of key performance influences. Our platform ensures programme owners and stakeholders are carefully guided through the necessary stages of any number of business change programmes. For a comprehensive description of Monetical and its solutions, please write to info@monetical.com or visit www.monetical.com