ITC505 Assessment 3: Mobile-Based Farmer Support Application Project

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ICT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ITC505-ASSESSMENT-3 CHARTER

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Project Overview and Description.............................................................................................4
Part One: Measurable Organizational Value..............................................................................5
Project goal.............................................................................................................................5
Area of Impact........................................................................................................................5
Values in Measurable Organizational Value..........................................................................6
Project Metric.........................................................................................................................6
Timeframe for MOV attainment............................................................................................8
Summary of MOV..................................................................................................................9
Part two: Scope Management...................................................................................................10
Project Scope........................................................................................................................10
Project resources...................................................................................................................11
Part three: Work Breakdown structure.....................................................................................13
Part four: Project risk analysis and plan...................................................................................14
Risk Analysis and Plan.........................................................................................................14
Part Five: Quality Management Plan.......................................................................................16
Team Philosophy statement..................................................................................................16
Quality assurance activities..................................................................................................16
Part six: Closure and evaluation...............................................................................................18
Annotated Bibliography.......................................................................................................18
Project closure checklist.......................................................................................................19
Conclusion................................................................................................................................20
References................................................................................................................................21

Introduction
The business world has been rapidly transforming into a technological era due to the intense
competition among the companies. The companies are indulged in cut-throat competition for
capturing maximum customers and ensuring long-term sustainability. In this race,
technologies are providing a robust foundation to the companies for enhancing their
efficiency and effectiveness in fulfilling customer demands. IT Project management helps the
companies to undertake such projects for installing new technologies successfully within the
company. The report focuses on the scenario of Virtucon Consultancy and Globex Corp.
Based on Australia, Virtucon established for providing consultancy services in collaboration
with professional IT and high-quality business consultants. The company is specialised in IT
management, project management, network engineering, business analysis and systems
administration. Established in 2013, Globex Corp is the merging outcome between BT &
Sons Farming Equipment and Riverina Precision Farming. The prime location of the
company is in the Riverina Region of NSW and also located in other regions such as Wagga
Wagga, Albury and Griffith. Globex Corp is engaged in offering modern and traditional
technologies to clients for maintaining the profitable position of farming businesses. It is
mainly specialised in precision farming and developing farming equipment. The report will
develop Measurable Organizational Value for the project of Mobile-Based Farmer Support
Application (MBFSA) along with its scope and scope management plan. It will also develop
a work breakdown structure using MS project, including resource allocation and project
budget. The risk analysis plan and quality management plan will be established.

Project Overview and Description
MBFSA programme aims at assisting farmers in better crop planning every season. The
farmers will get assistance in gaining crucial information and knowledge regarding different
aspects of crop planning through this app. They would get an insight into what crops are
required growing, which are the suitable markets and wholesalers for produce selling, and
how much crops should be grown in a specific season. The main intentions of MBFSA
programme are about assisting farmers in the following ways:
 Delivery management of crops
 Reduction of crop and other associated losses
 Decreasing the issues of overgrowing crops
 Possibility reduction of wrong crop growing
The programme of MBFSA would be a collaborative task of different entities including
farmers, Globex Corp, local government and markets & wholesalers. This programme would
also involve training programme for the farmers from every geographical area selected on a
sample basis. For this app development, Globex Corp has been associated with Virtucon,
where Globex Corp considers a long-standing client of Virtucon (Virtucon, 2019). This app
has intended to assist farmers in dealing with the problems related to crop planning and crop
losses. The project would run on certain assumptions, including specialization of Virtucon in
fact-finding techniques and Globex Corp’s capacity for gathering excellent level project data
by maintaining sound relations with the government. Also, Globex Corp would have to pay
50% of the total charges for this project management.

Part One: Measurable Organizational Value
Project goal
The most crucial goal of MBFSA project implies providing an integrated solution to farmers
within six months for facing different crop farming challenges through a mobile-based
application system.
Area of Impact
Rank No. Impact Areas Description
1. Customers The customers are the end users of the new mobile-based
application developed by Globex Corp in association with
Virtucon. The key customers are the farmers for whose
assistance this new application is developed. This
application will assist in widening the customer base as
gaining more farmers from the different geographical area
(Hobbs, & Besner, 2016).
2. Operational It is necessary for Globex Corp to provide application
software to the farmers having high efficiency. The
operational area will impact as new software application
will reduce the workload of the Globex employees. The
application will enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of
the operations.
3. Strategy Strategies are developed by Globex for different purposes,
including strongly compete with the rivalry firms, widening
the client base, attaining operational efficiency or
improving profitability level. Development of MBFSA is an
essential strategy of Globex Corp for capturing a large
number of farmers by providing them high-quality solutions
for farming or agriculture (Kopmann et al., 2017).
4. Financial It is evident that the new application development will incur
huge costs, including charges to Virtucon for application
development, training costs and installation costs and
others. However, it is also significant for Globex to provide

products and services at a price affordable to farmers. The
new application software requires mere installation by
farmers and use without any charges.
5. Social Social responsibility ensures long-term sustainability to the
companies to some extent. Globex Corp has been entirely
responsible for society by providing solutions to farmers
regarding agricultural issues. It develops integrated
solutions for the betterment of the farmers and farming
activities. Being socially responsible has benefitted the
company in attaining a positive and strong brand image.
Values in Measurable Organizational Value
Value Details
Faster Virtucon aims at providing the new mobile-based application for the
farmers' support to Globex Corp on time. MBFSA will assist the farmers in
providing quick solutions to their agriculture-related issues. The customers
of this application software that are farmers desire to attain efficiency in
their farming activities through MBFSA. This will help the farmers in
undertaking a quick decision-making process regarding producing and
selling the required crops (Costea, 2013).
Cheaper Virtucon endeavours to provide the new application software to Globex
Corp at the lowest price as possible for them. Moreover, Globex will target
its farmers by providing free of cost application software so that all the
targeted farmers can use this. It is necessary for Globex to integrate the
value of providing cheaper products and services to its clients and
customers for capturing a large customer base.
Project Metric
Target
The main target of Globex behind the development of MBFSA implies facilitating the
farmers in proper and efficient crop planning to minimize the crop or financial losses. The
company develops MBFSA intending to provide integrating solutions to agricultural issues.

Globex will ensure that the farmers from different geographical areas will enhance their
knowledge and training about crop planning as what, how much, and to whom the crops
require selling.
Stakeholders’ expectations
Stakeholders are the set of people that relate to the development of MBFSA programme.
These people associate or impact from the MBFSA programme directly or indirectly. In the
case of MBFSA software, there is a significant number of stakeholders and these stakeholders
related to the programme with certain expectations.
 Local government: The local government expects that they can collaboratively
develop effectively and quality application software of MBFSA for farmers. They
expect that their investment and collaboration must be fruitful for the farmers and
their enhancement.
 Farmers: The key expectations of farmers are that they can get quality application
software that can assist in solving their current problems related to agriculture. They
expect that this application software is efficient and can be affordable. They also
expect to get training for operating this new application software at free. Farmers have
the expectations for gaining as much knowledge about the crops and crop markets as
they can through MBFSA software (Hidding, & Nicholas, 2017).
 Virtucon Project management team: The expectations of IT project management
team state as the collaboration and support from different entities. They expect to get
all the resources on time for accomplishing the project in time and with quality. Also,
the team expects to gain adequate quantity and quality of information requires for the
development of MBFSA software.
 Globex representatives: Globex Corp has undertaken this IT project intending to
make farming activities more beneficial and in a favourable position. The company
expects to attain the quality application software having the capability of facilitating
quick and cheap solutions to the farmers for their agriculture problems.
 Markets/Wholesalers: The markets and wholesalers are also considered significant
stakeholders in the scenario of MBFSA software project. They expect that the farmers
can successfully fulfil the demands and needs of the markets and wholesalers by
providing the required amount and type of crops (Mufti, Novianti, and Anjani, 2017).
Quantitative target

Quantitative targets are the objectives in the form of numeric or statistic. Quantitative targets
are vital for the companies to be set as they assist in maintaining or enhancing financial
operations. Also, it becomes easier for measuring the effectiveness of a project being
undertaken with a considerable investment. The quantitative targets for the Virtucon and
Globex companies behind the development of MBFSA software are as mentioned:
Target Details
Profit To increase profitability by 20% within eight months through MBFSA
software
Problem-solving To solve more than 67% of the agricultural issues of targeted farmers
located in 4 major geographical areas within nine months
Customer base To develop an association with more than 2,000 farmers for enhancing
customer base within six months
Revenue To enhance company revenues by 25% through this application
software within six months (Jung, Koo, & Han, 2012)
Costs To reduce the operational costs by 29% within seven months
Timeframe for MOV attainment
S. No. Project management tasks Time duration
1. Project initiation One month
1.1 Identification of requirements Five days
1.2 Conducting market research Ten days
1.3 Developing ideas regarding MBFSA software Ten days
1.4 Presentation of ideas to Globex representatives Five days
2. Project planning One month
2.1 Defining project goal and scope Ten days
2.2 Identifying resources Ten days
2.3 Designing the system software of MBFSA Ten days
3. Project implementation Two month
3.1 Developing the MBFSA software 30 days
3.2 Installing MBFSA software 20 days
3.3 Training to farmers and employees Ten days
4. Project analysis and control 1.5 months
4.1 Testing the software 15 days

4.2 Identification of errors and improvement areas Five days
4.3 Fixing the problems 25 days
5. Project closure and evaluation 0.5 month
5.1 Closing the project Five days
5.2 Evaluation of the MBFSA software Ten days
Summary of MOV
Creation and implementation of MBFSA software with the integration of time and cost
values to solve farming and agricultural issues of farmers by fulfilling the expectations of all
the related stakeholders within six months.

Part two: Scope Management
Project Scope
The project scope of MBFSA software throws light on different project aspects such as costs,
timeframe, activities, deliverables, acceptance criteria, assumptions and constraints, and so
on. The current project states as the development of application software that can facilitate
extensive support to farmers in proper crop planning. There is a broad scope for the
companies regarding the MBFSA software development project. It will include:
 The total cost of approximately $500,000 along with the timeframe of 6 months
 Key activities of software designing, development, installation, testing and training to
farmers
 Deliverables such as quality application software of MBFSA, quality management
plan, risk analysis plan, massive market data and a large number of farmers and so on
 Accessibility to the software using mobile phones, computers, tablets and laptops
 The facility of providing crucial information to farmers regarding different markets
and crops to be grown (ul Hassan, Ahmad, & Zuhaira, 2018)
 Maintaining the costs as low as possible for farmers
 Solutions to farmers about their agricultural and farming problems
Acceptance criteria: Acceptance by all the project team members, Globex representatives
and the government is the primary acceptance criteria for the MBFSA software development
project. Other criteria for project acceptance are comprised of accessibility of software to
farmers of major targeted geographical areas, cheaper and quick solutions to farmer issues,
usable in remote and the other regions, convenient and easy utilization, and accessibility in
different portable devices.
Project deliverables: MBFSA software, project budget, risk analysis plan, scope statement, a
training manual to farmers, quality management plan, project documents, work breakdown
structure and so on are the key project deliverables.
Key resources
 Finance
 Software development team

 Market research tools
 Electronic devices such as laptops, computers, and printers
 Time
 Software testing program
 Database
 Market data
 Human resources
Project resources
People: This will include the human resources used for undertaking the whole project. The
project management team comprise of system designer, software developer, project manager,
technical experts, business analyst, functional manager, operational manager, database
administrator, sponsors and project control manager.
Technology: It involves mainly the software, network and hardware required for assisting the
project team and requirements.
Resources Requirements
Hardware RAM
Computers
Laptops
LAN connections
Wireless networking
Intel Core Processor
Graphics Card
Hard Disks
Software Microsoft Office
Real Player
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Java
Windows 7, 8.1 and 10
Chrome v61+
Outlook 2010+
MySQL 5.6, 5.7, 8
Spyware and Anti-virus

protection
Facilities: The critical facilities for the software development project will be the technical
infrastructure, office building, and regular building repairs, maintenance of technical
infrastructure, and canteen and parking area and so on (Hadaya, Cassivi, & Chalabi, 2012).