CIS8000 Assignment 2: AgriCare Mobile Application Development Report

Desklib provides past papers and solved assignments. Download this AgriCare mobile app development report now!

CIS8000 –
ASSIGNMENT 2
Student id:
Student name:

Letter of transmittal
Agriculture Care
XYZ road,
City of Queensland, Australia
CFO
Agriculture Care
XYZ road,
City of Queensland, Australia
Ma’am,
This letter is the response to your response to me towards our discussion of the development of
an application that can help our farmers to become more and more independent and earn as much
as they want. The Agricare will be designed in order to 0fulfil the requirements of the farmer by
helping them provide an interface between the experts of farming and farmers.
The application will allow the farmers to be able to chat with the executives or say he farming
experts about any query using the application AgriCare. The application will save time and
effort. The application will also allow the farmers to check for the current stocks of the farming
produces. Also, the application will play as a platform that will help the farmers to learn about
new methods and appliances used in farming.
I will be happy to provide your assistance in case of any query or discussion. Thank you so much
for allowing me to present my idea of AgriCare. I will make sure that I properly use this
opportunity and will make sure to respect the company’s trust in me.
Yours Sincerely
Signature
CIO Agriculture Care
1

A REPORT ON THE MOBILE
APPLICATION FOR AgriCare
Prepared for: CFO
Submitted: Date
Prepared by: Name of Student
Student Id: Id of student
2

Executive Summary
The document presented here is the complete report made to provide the elaborated description
of the application that will be developed for Agriculture Care and will be known by the name of
AgriCare. The report presented here is designed to represent the main aspects of AgriCare
development and designing. The report also includes the description of the development method
that will be used for the project AgriCare and the platforms that will be utilized. Various market-
related aspects such as the Value Proposition, global market competition, and cost-benefit
analysis will be presented here in this report to prove the fact that the application is going to
bring fortune for the company Agriculture Care.
The application discussed here is for the benefits of the farmers and therefore also represents and
defines various ways in which the application can be helpful for farmers. The report includes the
discussion of the complete procedure of development and the after-development strategies of
marketing on social media platforms. The future scope of AgriCare is also discussed at the end
of this report and it concludes how the application is beneficial for farmers as well the company
3

Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................4
List of tables....................................................................................................................................7
Background......................................................................................................................................8
Proposed solution.............................................................................................................................9
Cost Analysis.................................................................................................................................11
Strategic alignment and IT strategies............................................................................................13
Value prepositions and other benefits............................................................................................14
Project Management and control...................................................................................................15
Infrastructure requirements............................................................................................................15
Development platform...............................................................................................................15
Coding language and tools.........................................................................................................16
Cloud services............................................................................................................................16
Software design, development methodologies, and testing strategies...........................................17
Software design.........................................................................................................................17
Development methodologies.....................................................................................................18
Testing Strategies.......................................................................................................................18
Internationalization........................................................................................................................19
Social media...................................................................................................................................20
Why linked to social media.......................................................................................................20
How linked to social media.......................................................................................................20
API strategies.............................................................................................................................21
Risk Management..........................................................................................................................22
Risk Mitigation plans.................................................................................................................23
Integration and deployment strategies...........................................................................................24
4

Integration..................................................................................................................................24
Deployment strategies...............................................................................................................24
User acceptance and change management.....................................................................................25
User acceptance.........................................................................................................................25
Change management..................................................................................................................25
Maintenance...................................................................................................................................26
Future opportunities and enhancements........................................................................................27
Recommendations and conclusion................................................................................................28
Recommendations......................................................................................................................28
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................28
References......................................................................................................................................29
5

List of figures
Figure 1: Proposed application of AgriCare..................................................................................10
Figure 2: Design of menu page of AgriCare.................................................................................17
Figure 3: Social media...................................................................................................................20
Figure 4: Social media API............................................................................................................21
List of tables
Table 1: Cost analysis....................................................................................................................11
Table 2: Strategic alignment planning...........................................................................................13
Table 3: Reason for using agile methodology...............................................................................18
Table 4: Risk management table....................................................................................................22
Table 5: Risk mitigation plan........................................................................................................23
6

Background
The project is about developing the application for Agriculture Care which provides several
agriculture and farming related services such as providing crop related facilities, product
selection, and purchasing, chat functionality, news, videos, etc. The project is taken into
consideration because the online application for the agriculture and farming services have been
helpful in revolutionized in the agriculture sector. The customer wants the digital interactions
rather than the old system, so the main objective of taking this project is to produce the
application that can constantly evolve on the basis of the interaction with the customers.
Tarute, Nikou, and Gatautis (2017) stated that increasing use of mobile applications allow
several organizations and communities to make a positive relationship with the customers. Thus,
the requirements of the customer should be considered while designing the application. The
farming communities are also moving towards the digitalization by developing the application so
that the user can easily access the farming facilities and this will bring more accessibility to the
user. The need for the agriculture systems of the AgriCare application is required because if a
farmer wants to contact the crop expert or check the latest updates, they can do so with the help
of application inconvenient way.
The application proposed for the AgriCare is the agriculture-based application with the purpose
to help the farmer to use it from anywhere and at any time. It will also increase the chances for
Agriculture Care to get new consumers. Introducing the farming application for the Agriculture
Care will attract the greater number of users to the customers.
7

Proposed solution
There are some problems with the existing application of the Agriculture Care that needs to be
addressed. The main problem identified by the customers are:
 If some customer wishes to order the crop products, then there is an only a conventional
method for purchasing it. The conventional method means they can purchase it by making an
order on the phone call.
 There is no proper referral facility in the application and the process of financial management
is not also working properly.
 The current scenario of the application of Agriculture Care is that there is no validation and
verification of the entire procedure.
 Also, there are chances of occurrence of error like the application creates errors while
purchasing the products or getting notified about the news.
To address and solve these problems, the solution proposed is to develop the application for the
company Agriculture Care. By proposing this solution, farmers and users will get benefits and
this will also minimize the errors that occur in the conventional process. If the proposed solution
of AgriCare application implements by company Agriculture Care, the following are the
benefits:
 The application allows the farmers to communicate with the crop specialist via chat
functionality.
 The new feature allows to watch the latest news and hence will notify to the farmers and
consumers about any latest news.
 The error rate also reduces which in turn improves the working process of the application
with better communication.
8

Figure 1: Proposed application of AgriCare
The image which is shown above represents the proposed solution of AgriCare application with
the core functionalities such as a package of products, chat with an expert, watching videos, and
news.
9

Cost Analysis
The cost analysis is the estimated cost for the project required in the developing of the new
project. The table which is shown below illustrates the cost analysis for the newly proposed
solution of AgriCare. The cost analysis table shows the analysis of the cost for five years i.e.
from the year 2019 to the year 2023.
Table 1: Cost analysis
Cost
Analysis
Year
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 TOTAL
Project Benefits -
Anticipated
Direct 200 220 250 300 350 1,320
Indirect 450 480 550 700 800 2,980
TOTAL BENEFITS
$
650.00
$
700.00
$
800.00
$
1,000.00
$
1,150.00
$
4,300.00
Project Costs
Software Pricing
$
150.00
$
150.00
$
150.00
$
150.00
$
150.00
$
750.00
Software Maintenance /
Subscription
$
100.00
$
100.00
$
100.00
$
100.00
$
100.00
$
500.00
Services
Implementation
$
120.00
$
120.00
$
120.00
$
120.00
$
120.00
$
600.00
Services Maintenenace /
Upgrades
$
180.00
$
180.00
$
180.00
$
180.00
$
180.00
$
900.00
Infrastructure
Purchase
$
120.00
$
120.00
$
120.00
$
120.00
$
120.00
$
600.00
Infrastructure
Maintenance
$
70.00
$
70.00
$
70.00
$
70.00
$
70.00
$
350.00
TOTAL
$
740.00
$
740.00
$
740.00
$
740.00
$
740.00
$
3,700.00
GST
$
74.00
$
74.00
$
74.00
$
74.00
$
74.00
$
370.00
TOTAL COSTS
$
814.00
$
814.00
$
814.00
$
814.00
$
814.00
$
4,070.00
Net Present Value
Total project benefits
$
650.00
$
700.00
$
800.00
$
1,000.00
$
1,150.00
$
4,300.00
Total project costs
-$
814.00
-$
814.00
-$
814.00
-$
814.00
-$
814.00
-$
4,070.00
Net cash flows
-$
164.00
-$
114.00
-$
14.00
$
186.00
$
336.00
$
230.00
NPV years 1-5 $56.89
Internal Rate of Return
IRR years 1-5 20.13%
10

The cost is estimated on the basis of the project benefits in terms of direct and indirect
anticipated benefits and the overall project cost including software pricing, infrastructure
purchase, software maintenance, infrastructure maintenance, etc. The cost obtained is $3700 and
GST is $370, hence the total cost is $4070. The overall benefits including direct and indirect
benefits are $4300 means the net cash flow is $230 with 20.31% rate of return (Johansson &
Kriström 2018).
11