Nowadays, Function Point and Use Case Point metrics have been
largely adopted in the software industry to measure the size of the
development work of the project. Metrics should be used in
conjunction with estimating techniques such as COCOMO. There
has been an increasing interest in monitoring and controlling
project performance. Earned Value Analysis present itself as an
easy-to-understand technique that helps to monitor and control
project’s performance. This article presents a sequence of steps
which allows the integration of software functional sizing metrics,
COCOMO II and Earned Value Analysis in the processes
recommended by the PMBoK for planning and controlling
software development projects. The goal of such a sequence of
steps is to help project managers to plan, monitor and control
software development projects using the PMBoK and software
functional metrics. The two metrics were chosen as the basic units
due to their large acceptance by industry. COCOMO is a
technique largely adopted in the software engineering area. A
case study using an actual software project data was undertaken to
evaluate our proposal. An add-in for Microsoft Project tool was
developed to support that such a sequence of steps can be
automated and integrated.