Mobile Based Farmer Support Application Project - Virtucon Scenario

This project centers around the Mobile Based Farmer Support Application (MBFSA), a collaborative initiative between Globex and Virtucon aimed at assisting farmers with crop planning. The project comprises several key components, including team formation, a detailed project description, and a comprehensive team charter outlining skills, roles, and communication strategies. The assignment further involves a communication plan identifying stakeholders and information exchange protocols. Furthermore, the project incorporates individual reflections on leadership qualities within a project management context, emphasizing the importance of effective communication and dispute resolution. The project utilizes references from various sources to support the findings and analysis.

Assignment-2 Template
Coversheet
All members’ details – student id, name, lecturer name

Part 1 (Group)
1.1 Project name: Mobile Based Farmer Support Application
(MBFSA)
1.2 Team details: The team details are indicated in the table
following-
First Name Last Name Mobile Email
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1.3 Project description: The MBFSA project is a project by
Globex that aims to help farmers plan their crops. The application aims to
reduce the issues faced by the farmers, which include overgrowing and
growing a wrong crop. The application will collect the geographical data
and the seasonal details to suggest a farmer which crop to grow. In this
way, a farmer could achieve maximum yield. The project is given to
Virtucon, a loyal client of Globex.
1.4 Team charter: A team charter is prepared that will
provide an idea of the skills and knowledge possessed by the team
members associated with the MBFSA project. The following table
provides an idea of the key roles and responsibilities possessed by the
team that they can make use in the project to ascertain its successful
delivery. The following table provides an idea of the skills and knowledge
inventory, roles and responsibilities, expectations and team rules.
Skills & knowledge
inventory
Member 1 Skills:
Managing the team
and decision
making
Time and schedule
management
Knowledge:
Techniques of
dispute resolution
and team
management

Member 2 Skills:
Application coding
Applying necessary
test modules on the
coded application
Knowledge:
Programming
languages and
interface designing
Member3 Skills:
Resource allocation
process and
accounting
Knowledge:
Team building and
resource needs
Member4 Skills:
Database coding
and linking
Knowledge:
About the work
performed by the
database
administrators
Roles and
Responsibilities
Member 1 Project Manager:
Role of a project
manager
incorporates
effective project
scheduling, which
can help the team
in delivering the
project in a specific
time.
Member 2 Programmer: A
programmer’s
responsibility is to
assist the team

coding the
application
Member3 Resource
Manager: The
responsibility of a
resource manager
is to allocate
appropriate
resources to the
team and to make
team work in an
effective manner.
Member4 Database
Administrator: The
responsibility of a
data base
administrator is to
manage the
database linked
with the software
that is being
developed.
Team
communications
Week-5 University at 5 pm
Week-6 Project site at 2 pm
Week-7 At University
campus at 11:30
am
Communication and sharing methods
The communication method that is opted
in the meeting is mainly face to face
communication that will ensure effective
information flow among all the team
members.
Team rules &
expectations
Member1 Member 1 is
expected to lead
and motivate the
team to complete
the work in a
stipulated time
Member 2 Member 2 is given
the responsibility of
coding the
application and
helping the team
Virtucon in coding

and development of
the MBFSA
application
Member 3 The Member 3 is
responsible for
management of the
resources needs in
the project and this
member has
experience in this
field
Member 4 The member 4 will
assist the team of
Virtucon in
management of the
database linked
with the
application.
Team Rules Effective
communication will
be ensured among
the team members
Signatures Member1 <list here>
Member2 <list here>
Member3 <list here>
Member4 <list here>

Part 2 (Group)
Week-5 Organiser Scribe
Discussion about
project Planning
Member 1 Member 2
Week-6 Organiser Scribe
Discussion about
Resources needed
Member 3 Member 4
Week-7 Organiser Scribe
Discussion about
the implementation
approach
Member 1 Member 3

Part 3 (Group)
3.1 Communication Plan
Stakehol
der name
Informati
on to be
shared
Frequenc
y of
informati
on
exchange
Location of
information
exchange
Purpose of
communicati
on
Mechani
sm
Who what when Where Why How
Farmers What the
project
should
involve
Once in
a month
Project
Implementat
ion site
Communicat
ing the
expectations
is necessary
for the
farmers as
the project is
being
implemented
for them
Hard
copy
Globex What the
project
must
include
Weekly Office of
Globex
The
specification
s that the
project must
include is
indicated
Pdf
Virtucon How the
project
will
progress
Weekly Office of
Virtucon
The plan for
project
implementat
ion will be
specified
Pdf
Project
Team
What is
the
progress
of the
project
Bi-
Weekly
Project
Implementat
ion site
The project
team will
share the
detailed
project
progress
Ppt and
doc
Part 4 (Individual)
4.1 Reflection
The undertaken MBFSA project has enabled me to understand the
leadership qualities needed in a team to make work in the best possible

manner. An Information Technology project manager possess certain
distinctive skills and qualities that enables him/her to lead the team and
make even the most difficult people to work as a team. I have understood
that a team needs a leader for motivation. An efficient leader needs to
know the process by which a particular individual will be motivated in a
best possible way to lead the team in an effective manner. I have
understood the importance of opting for an efficient leader in a project
management team. In the project team of MBFSA project, there is a
significant need of a motivational leader. Manager of a project team can
often act as a project leader. It is necessary to choose a leader who has
the capability of dispute resolution within the team. Dispute solution is
one of the most significant skills that a project manager or a leader
should possess.
Certain basic qualities are needed to be present in the manager of a
project so that an IT project team is lead effectively. The project manager
needs to have a basic understanding of the various project issues that a
team might face and should know a way of resolution of the same. An
experienced project manager and a project leader is needed in the team
in order to ensure that the manager has the capability of handling the
team in an effective manner. Apart from that having an effective
communication skill is important to establish a good communication link
among all the members of the team. Along with that active listening skill
is equally important for a project manager.

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