COCOMO II applied in a banking and insurance environment: experience report

This paper presents an experience report about the set-up of a measurement environment using COCOMO II for software development projects in a company in the banking and insurance area. This set-up is part of a larger research project on managing efficiency aspects of software factory systems. As in a practical environment it is not always possible to faithfully follow the theory, this article describes the decisions we made and our experiences during the whole set-up process.