Your business model is the manner in which you charge customers for your products or services -- the way you make money. Every software business model is associated with a license model. A license model is the terms and conditions (or rights and restrictions) that you grant to a user and/or customer of your software as defined by your business model.

Traditional plan-driven project management methods offer (a hope at least) project results to be predictably achieved; that planned costs, schedules, and functionality (scope) can be achieved by careful planning and control measures combined with repeatable processes.