7th March 2008, Monetical Limited, Cambridge, the provider of a management consultancy service enabling self evaluation and performance optimisation of software engineering, delivery and support activities, announces that it has signed an exclusive agreement with software operations and project management expert Dr Robert Hughes, who is a Senior Lecturer at Brighton University and prolific author of software project management and risk management.

Robert has steered the definition of the Monetical’s Operations Audit Module, helping it become the most focused tool available today enabling software and IT organisations to self-evaluate their own performance against best practices, including Prince2 and CMMI. Monetical's Operations Audit Module provides software and IT organisations with focused, practical feedback on five if their most important operational activities, Planning, performing, risk, change management and quality. Self completion helps diagnose potential problems, identify practical solutions and develop a greater awareness of operational issues throughout the entire value chain. Monetical's Founder, John E. Abram commented, ‘once again Monetical has demonstrated it commitment to developing the most comprehensive intellectual network, which grants cost effect access to our software and IT organisations to leading experts in the critical fields influencing the performance of software and IT organisations and their projects.’. Adding, ‘in particular, our Operations module enables such organisations to clearly establish how existing operational investment is performing and identify critical operational and commercial challenges and overcome them.’

Robert noted, 'The analytical tool developed by Monetical to assess the operational management of development projects provides a cost-effective and immediately useful way for organisations to check the health of their operational processes and to identify areas of where the most valuable process improvements can be made.’

Based in Cambridge UK, Monetical Limited is the provider of a management consultancy service backed by a network of leading subject matter experts to address the increased complexity of software and IT project engineering, deployment and support activities. Its unique expertise and analytical capabilities empower software and IT organisations to optimise their performance in an increasingly complex business environment. Monetical helps small and medium-sized businesses to gain cost-effective access to a wealth of industry expertise by providing tools which enable them to compare their own operational and commercial performance against best practice. For a comprehensive description about Monetical and its solutions, visit www.monetical.com

About Dr Robert Hughes

Dr Robert Hughes is currently a Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton, authors, is an active member of British Computer Society (BCS)and is chair of the ISEB project management examination panel. Bob's areas of particular interests include software project management, software metrics and project risk. Over the years Bob has produced a number of books, articles and papers on these topics, including the classic text Software Project Management, published by McGraw-Hill, which has Indian and Chinese editions, and for which a fifth edition is currently being prepared. A current developing area of interest is the interaction between IT and business need which is the subject of a book IT for business benefit to be published shortly by the British Computer Society.