Quantifying software development: Applying mobile monetization techniques to your software development process

There are many well defined factors and metrics for the monetization of mobile free to play games, as well as direct solutions and strategies to increase such metrics. Technology and market changes have allowed us to provide software to our customers digitally, which has predicated a shift over to a live service model of development, and business methods emphasizing a minimum viable product followed by incremental changes based on customer responses to our product. Software development methodologies themselves have traditionally been measured only against their costs in development. The same methods that have driven changes in the business models for software development can now be applied to software development methodologies so that architecture decisions can be measured against future revenue in a consistent fashion. This paper presents an example of how such measurements can be made and applied.