Mobile Based Farmer Support Application Project

This document discusses the development of a mobile-based application system for managing the MBFSA program. It covers the identification of areas of impact, project value, expectations and targets for stakeholders, timeline, scope management plan, work breakdown structure, project assumptions, risk identification and analysis, quality management plan, and closure and evaluation. The document also includes references and an appendix.

Running head: MOBILE BASED FARMER SUPPORT APPLICATION PROJECT
Mobile Based Farmer Support Application Project
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Part 1: Measurable Organisational Value (MOV)...........................................................................2
1.1 Overview and Description of Project....................................................................................2
1.2 Identification of Area of Impact............................................................................................2
1.3 Project value Identified (On a scale of 1 to 5).......................................................................3
1.4 Expectation and Target for Stakeholders...............................................................................3
1.5 Timeline for MOV.................................................................................................................4
1.6 Summarisation of the MOV...................................................................................................5
Part 2: Scope Management Plan......................................................................................................5
2.1. Scope Management Plan.......................................................................................................5
2.1.1. Project Requirements.....................................................................................................5
2.1.2. In Scope and Out of Scope of the Project......................................................................5
2.2.3. Project Deliverables.......................................................................................................6
2.2.4 Scope Verification Process.............................................................................................6
2.3 Resource List.........................................................................................................................7
Part 3: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).....................................................................................8
3.1. WBS for MBFSA.................................................................................................................8
3.2 Milestones and Deliverables................................................................................................12
3.3 Gantt chart...........................................................................................................................15

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Part 4: Project Assumption............................................................................................................16
4.1 Assumptions made...............................................................................................................16
4.2 Risk Identification Framework............................................................................................16
4.3 Risk Analysis and Plan for Mitigation.................................................................................17
Part 5: Quality Management Plan..................................................................................................18
5.1 Philosophy of Team.............................................................................................................18
5.2 Quality Assurance................................................................................................................18
5.2.1 Validation of Activity...................................................................................................18
5.2.2 Verification of Activity.................................................................................................18
Part 6: Closure and Evaluation......................................................................................................18
6.1 Closure Checklist.................................................................................................................18
References......................................................................................................................................19
Appendix........................................................................................................................................21

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Part 1: Measurable Organisational Value (MOV)
1.1 Overview and Description of Project
The Globex organisation has been in the plan for developing a mobile-based application
system based on managing the MBFSA program. The following program would be comprised
with a collaborative effort based on different entities such as the representatives of Globex,
government, farmers and wholesalers. The Globex has thus requested Virtucon for the
development of the mobile based systems. The project is based on understanding the core
concepts in relation to development of MBFSA.
1.2 Identification of Area of Impact
Operational: MBFSA would be able to bring in efficiency of business services and thus
bring accuracy in farming services.
Strategy: A strategy for the development of farming culture would be an integral part of
the business culture.
Customer: The farmers would be affected with the proper development of the
application.
Social: MBFSA would be highly affecting the society of farming.
Financial: MBFSA would be helping in the increasing of profitability for Globex,
Virtucon.

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1.3 Project value Identified (On a scale of 1 to 5)
Value
Impact
Area
Better Faster Cheaper Do More
Operational 2 1 3 5
Strategy 3 2 3 4
Customer 4 2 5 1
Social 3 5 1 2
Financial 1 4 2 5
1.4 Expectation and Target for Stakeholders
Stakeholders Expectations Target
(Need of
Improvement)
Farmers and
Volunteers
To provide the raw data collected from
farms to the Globex team
High
Development Team To provide a high quality MBFSA for the
farmers
Medium
Virtucon To provide a detailed requirement to the
development team for the best purpose of
use
High
Globex Corporation Collection of data from farmers High

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1.5 Timeline for MOV

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1.6 Summarisation of the MOV
Seria
l No
MOV Description
1 Overview and Description of Project Defining a proper aim and exact deliverables for the
MBFSA
2 Identification of Area of Impact Identifying the core Operational, Strategy,
Customer, Social, Financial impact over the project
3 Project value Identified (On a scale of
1 to 5)
Maintaining high performance and designing the
systems within the proper budget
4 Expectation and Target for
Stakeholders
Development of target for stakeholders by
increasing business efficiency
5 Timeline for MOV 407 days
Part 2: Scope Management Plan
2.1. Scope Management Plan
2.1.1. Project Requirements
The project requirements have been defined as follows: better performance, higher
functionality, efficient in cost and effective coordination of work processes.
2.1.2. In Scope and Out of Scope of the Project
The Scope of Project
1. The MBFSA would be developed within the proper time and budget
2. The system would be readily accepted by farmers
3. Managing the work of the development team
The Out of Scope for the Project

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1. To discuss the MBFSA system with the farmers
2. To install application for MBFSA for the farmers
3. Updating employee details in the server
2.2.3. Project Deliverables
2.2.4 Scope Verification Process
The employees of Globex would follow the guidelines based on the development of the
project.

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2.3 Resource List

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Part 3: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
3.1. WBS for MBFSA

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Developing MBFSA
Systems
Start of Project Phase of Project Planning
Meeting with team
members
Conducting feasibility
study
Development of Project
Charter
Verification of Project
Charter
Development of a plan of
communication
Development of a plan of
Resource management
Developing Project
ScopeDeveloping Risk
Management Plan
Developing Quality
Management Plan
Planning of Budget
Scheduling of Project
Activities
Process for Control of
document change
Evaluation of Business
Requirements
Evaluation of process
required for
computer-based system
Documentation of User
Requirement of New
System
Control of Audit
Regulatory Compliance
Reporting to Senior
management
Developing of
Management Plan
Phase of Designing of
Computer-based training
system
Designing the Workflow
Management
Defining of Technical
Requirements
Defining of UI
Requirements
Evaluation of Architecture
of the technical system
Development of
Specification of Functional
Systems
Development of User
Interface
Definining database model
Defining logic of
programming
Defining Use Case
Defining Platform and
technical specification
Defining functional
specification
Implementation Phase
Setting Environment for
development
Implementation of code
for implementation
Development of
UIDesigning of Interface
Phase of Testing
Release of testing of
system
Unit Testing
Beta Testing
Black Box Testing
Environmental Setup of
Testing
Application Testing
Fixing of Detected
Bugs
Deployment Phase
Deployment of
applicationSwitching over of
operations
Migration of Data
Production
Documentation for
end-user
Closing phase of project
Signing off of Project
Releasing of Contract
Ending of Project
(Figure 1: The WBS for the Project)
(Source: Created by author)

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3.2 Milestones and Deliverables

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3.3 Gantt chart
(Figure 2: The Gantt chart for the Project)
(Source: Created by author)

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Part 4: Project Assumption
4.1 Assumptions made
The assumptions that could be made during developing of the MBFSA systems are:
1. The project would be accepted by the farmers and the Globex Corporation.
2. The project will help in improving the quality of crops.
4.2 Risk Identification Framework
The following risks that might get incurred over the project are:
Number Risk Cell references
R2 Financial Issues: The budget for the project might
get exceeded
C4
R3 Acceptance Issues: The project might not be
acceptable by the farmers
B2
R4 Quality Issues: MBFSA might incur problems with
quality aspects
A4
R5 Deadline Issues: The deadline for development
might get exceeded.
D2
R1 Technical Issues: The system might not be able to
capture live data from farms.
B5
Risk Identification A (Improbable) B (Moderate) C (Likely) D (Certain)
1 (Insignificant)
3 (Lost Time) R3 R5
2 (Minor)
5 (Fatal) R4 R2
4 (Major) R1

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4.3 Risk Analysis and Plan for Mitigation
N
o
Ran
k
Risk Description Category Root Cause Trigger Potential
Response
s
Risk
Owner
Probabilit
y
Impact Status
R
2
4 Financial
Issues
The
financial
budget
might get
exceeded
Financial Improper
budget
estimation
Budget was
not
properly
defined
Project
sponsor
would
define the
plan for
the budget
Project
Sponsor
Low Mediu
m
Developin
g plan
R
3
2 Acceptanc
e Issues
The project
might not be
acceptable
by the
farmers
Performanc
e
Improper
marketing
Marketing
was not
defined
Project
consulting
team
would
enhance
the farmer
experienc
e
Project
consulting
team
High Low Planning
for
performanc
e
R
4
1 Quality
Issues
MBFSA
might incur
problems
with quality
aspects
Performanc
e
Quality
Issues
Quality in
application
developme
nt
Project
owner
would
define the
quality
aspects
Project
Manager
Low High Planning
for quality
R
5
5 Deadline
Issues
The
deadline for
developmen
t might get
exceeded.
Scheduling Poor project
plan
Poor
estimation
of
developme
nt scenario
Project
manager
would
define
proper
project
plan
Project
Manager
Medium Low Developin
g plan
R
1
3 Technical
Issues
The system
might not be
able to
capture live
data from
farms.
Technical Programmin
g errors
Flaws in
capturing
live data
during
deployment
The
coding
team
would be
involved
in
developin
g the
applicatio
n
Project
Manager
Low High Developin
g plan

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Part 5: Quality Management Plan
5.1 Philosophy of Team
The primary aim of Globex is to design the application based on providing a unique
experience to farmers. The team members would complete the MBFSA within the budget and
estimated time.
5.2 Quality Assurance
5.2.1 Validation of Activity
The employees would define each of the phases based on validating the activity. Based
on success of each phase, the developers would define the next phases of development.
5.2.2 Verification of Activity
The quality assurance team would maintain each of the aspects based on quality for the
MBFSA. The developed application of MBFSA should be able to describe each of the tests that
might be performed by the project.
Part 6: Closure and Evaluation
6.1 Closure Checklist
Task Completion (Yes/No) Checklist
Implementation of training programs for
farmers with new software

Understanding the conditions of weather
Contacting farmers 
Meeting Globex
Implementation of new plan 

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Appendix
Xin, J., & Zazueta, F. (2016). Technology trends in ICT–towards data-driven, farmer-
centered and knowledge-based hybrid cloud architectures for smart
farming. Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal, 18(4), 275-279.
The different technologies in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have
helped in forming a wide form of development for the farming sector. With the defining of new
kind of technologies, there have been major forms of development in the agricultural sector.
There have been different forms of innovation that have raised with the rise of new forms of
technological opportunities. The research in this paper have mainly highlighted the various forms
of recent trends that have been made with the use of ICT based technologies. The proposed
architecture that have been developed within this report focuses over the use of data-driven
technologies. The decisions made by the smart systems would be farmer-centric and based on
service integration, interoperation and aggregation. the authors have discussed over a customized
form of solutions based for farmers, which would discuss about the different kind of components
such as 1) integration of data based on sensor based technology and 2) customizable dashboard
for business solutions and farming suitability. The research in this paper also focuses over the
use of integration of various forms of services based on cloud-based technology. The use of
cloud supported technology would be highly useful for allowing the integration of services,
technology and business services.
Pongnumkul, S., Chaovalit, P., & Surasvadi, N. (2015). Applications of smartphone-based
sensors in agriculture: a systematic review of research. Journal of Sensors, 2015.

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In the recent times, smartphones have formed a major part of the application based for
farmers. The use of smartphones have become a much form of useful tool for the agricultural
sector. However, there are certain factors that resist the use of smartphones. The cost of
smartphones is highly accessible. Various kind of computing applications are widely used with
the rise of smartphone technology. The authors have discussed that there are a wide use of
sensors that are equipped with the smartphones. The sensors form a promising tool that would be
able to assist the tasks based on farming. The discussion in this paper reviews over the use of
smartphones that have been mentioned in the study of literature. The author have focused over
the initial 1500 articles that have been vastly identified within the search for databases. The
different applications have been widely categorized based on the number of functions that are
performed within the agricultural sector. The articles researched during the study of the paper
describes the different applications based on farming. These include information system
applications, farm management applications. The farms also make use of cameras and GPS in
order to design the farm applications properly. Hence, the authors have discussed over the varied
use of such kind of applications in the farming sector.
Sarangi, S., Umadikar, J., & Kar, S. (2016). Automation of Agriculture Support Systems
using Wisekar: Case study of a crop-disease advisory service. Computers and
electronics in agriculture, 122, 200-210.
The paper discusses about the use of ICT based technology in the farming department.
The authors have discussed that with the use of such kind of technology, the farming sector have
been highly been benefitted for the high form of agricultural production. The different efforts
that are made by the use of technology would help the farmers in providing the farmers with a
wide range of services that would be interactive in nature and would increase the productivity of

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the farms. The authors have also discussed about a certain framework that have been developed
based on expanding the different range of services that would be provided by the agricultural
advisory system. The smart application systems that have been developed would be able to
detect the different types of diseases that might affect the farming sectors and the crops. The
farms would also be equipped with effective sensors that would send direct information to
farmers, which would help them in getting live updates about the condition of the farms. Thus
this research paper discusses about the different applications that would be helpful for the
agricultural sector and the productivity factor for the farming sector.