Mobile Based Farmer Support Application PILOT: Kisumu County

Title - Mobile Based Farmer Support Application PILOT: Kisumu County

Part One: MOV - Measurable Organisational Value
The desired impact area for the project is operational; the mobile application is aimed at
making farmers more productive and effective through direct support via he application, which
implies that the application will have an operational impact on how farmers access information
and technical services/ support.
The application will essentially add two types of value; cheaper and faster- cheaper
because using the application cuts out the time and accosts associated with sending a technical
support/ extension office to visit farmers to provide technical support. Faster because it will
greatly improve efficiency; for example, a farmer that wants to know the best fertilizer tor seed
to use based on their soil types can quickly seek the information from the application and get it in
a matter of seconds. This is a much better proposition than visiting the local agricultural office or
having an extension and support officer visit their premises to recommend the best seed
(Paschetta, 2018).
Metric: The metric to be used is the Lead-time: Lead-time refers to the time taken to
move from the idea creation delivering a working application that meets the needs of the client
(Usmani, 2019)
Time frame: The application should be ready for deployment within 16 weeks (four
months) to have downloadable software that meets user requirements.
Summary of MOV
Measurable Organizational value
MOV Number MOV
1 Desired impact area Operational
2 Value Types Cheaper and faster
3 Metric Lead time
4 Time Frame 16 weeks

Part Two: Project Scope
The scope of the project is to develop a farmer support mobile application that will work
with the major mobile operating platforms (Android, Windows, IOS) and can be downloaded by
farmers to their phones and be ready for use in five steps (installation and configuration steps).
The application will work seamlessly in different versions of the mobile operating systems and
the application should be ready in six months and work with even the lowest network signals
(2G, 3G, and 4G) and have AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) feature
Scope Management Plan
This was developed based on PMBOK guidelines (Roseke, 2014; Hartney, 2017)
Requirements
The application will be supported by the major mobile operating systems of Android,
Windows, and IOS and be an application available for download at any time form the respective
operating systems application stores. The application will require the user too input some
identifying information and a password, all completed in five steps or less and will contain all
relevant agricultural and technical support information, including search parameters, ability to
post queries and chat with an agricultural technical support officer 24 hours, 7 days a week. A
member’s area will be available to enable users communicate and share ideas with each other;
this means it will have chat and messages applications within the main application. The
application will work with even the lowest network configurations, starting from 2 G to 4 %
networks and with capabilities to use 5G networks in future. It will be an easy to use application
with User Interface design principles incorporated in the design to enable quick learning and
navigation, with a help section on how to use the application.
Stakeholders
The stakeholders include the main project sponsor/ executive sponsor that is the
representative/ chairperson of the farmers group
A project board consisting of the executive members of the farmers group

The development team consisting of a project manager, a project accountant, developers, and
testers (project team)
Scope Statement
To develop a user friendly data base driven mobile application to provide technical
support to a farers group through their mobile devices; the application will work of different
operating platforms and platform versions and use even low internet speeds for access and be
available 99% of the time with minimal service degradation at peak use with AI (artificial
intelligence) and ML (machine learning) features.
Work Breakdown Structure\WBS Dictionary
The WBS is as depicted in the image below;
Roles and Responsibilities
The roles and responsibilities are depicted in the table below;
Role Responsibility
Approvals for the project Executive sponsor (farmers group chairperson)