University Project Charter: Mobile Based Farmer Support System (MBFSA)

This project charter outlines the development of a Mobile Based Farmer Support System (MBFSA) for Globlex, focusing on providing farmers with crucial data and information to improve their productivity. The charter encompasses the project's Measurable Organizational Value (MOV), including desired areas of impact, project value, metrics, and a defined timeframe. It also details the project scope, scope management plan, and resource allocation. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project activities, resource estimates, Gantt chart, and budget are presented. Furthermore, the charter includes a comprehensive risk analysis, quality management plan, and closure checklist. The project aims to create a mobile application that facilitates data collection, sharing, and analysis among farmers, governments, and wholesalers, ultimately enhancing revenue and operational efficiency. The document also references relevant literature on project management best practices.

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Project management: Mobile based Farmer support system
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Project description...........................................................................................................................2
Part 1:MOV.....................................................................................................................................2
1.1 Desired area of impact...........................................................................................................2
1.2 Project value..........................................................................................................................3
1.3 Metric.....................................................................................................................................3
1.4 Timeframe..............................................................................................................................4
1.5 MOV statement......................................................................................................................4
Part 2: Scope....................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Definition of project scope....................................................................................................4
2.2 Scope management plan........................................................................................................5
2.3 Resource list...........................................................................................................................5
Part 3: Work breakdown structure...................................................................................................6
3.1 Work breakdown structure....................................................................................................6
3.2 Project activities.....................................................................................................................7
3.3 Resource estimate..................................................................................................................8
3.4 Gantt chart.............................................................................................................................9
3.4 Project budget......................................................................................................................10
Part 4: Risk analysis and plan........................................................................................................11
4.1 Assumption..........................................................................................................................11
4.2 Risk determination framework............................................................................................11
4.3 Risk analysis........................................................................................................................11
Part 5: Quality management plan..................................................................................................13
5.1 Project quality statement......................................................................................................13
5.2 Verification activities...........................................................................................................13
5.3 Validation activities.............................................................................................................13
Part 6: Closure and evaluation.......................................................................................................14
6.1 Closure checklist..................................................................................................................14
6.2 Project evaluation................................................................................................................14
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................15
Appendices....................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
The main focus of the paper is on a new Mobile based farmer support system (MBFSA)
development which is mainly assisted by Globlex for the farmers so that they can be able to
gather required data as well as information including weather conditions, preferred crops they
will grow as well as information about the capacity and crops that the farmers grows. In addition
to this, Virtucon aims to provide training to the framers from different geographical area who
would further able to train as well as assists other farmers of their area.
Project description
The project aims to develop MBFSA with the help of the organization “Globlex”. It is
found that the development of the mobile application is considered as one pf the collaborative
work among the farmers, governments as well as wholesalers. In order to utilize the mobile
application, both the farmers as well as wholesalers needs to open their account and add
important data including the details about the generation of the crops, production of the sales as
well as about weather forecast. With the help of the application, the wholesalers can provide
information related with the name and quantity of the produced crops required within a specific
area. In addition to this, they will generally able to download the data which will further assists
them in analyzing sales as well as production of the crops.
Part 1:MOV
1.1 Desired area of impact
The desired impacts in context to its significance are generally reflected below:
Strategy > Social > Customer > Operational > Financial

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1.2 Project value
The values that are linked to the project are elaborated below:
Better: The mobile application is better as the farmers can be able to analyze different
types of information including weather forecasting, needed crops, suitable crops needed to grown
and more.
Faster: The wholesalers can easily reach to the farmers for the quantity of the products
that they required by using the mobile application.
1.3 Metric
Area of impact Metric
Strategy It is found that development of proper
strategy for the business is helpful and will
enhance the organization’s revenue by 5%
Customer Because of the applications of the new
system, more farmers get attracted with the
application that will be profitable for both the
organization as well as the farmers.
Financial Due to MBFSA, the revenue that s generated
by the organization gets enhances by 10%.
Operational The operation of the business gets improved
because of the utilization of the new
application.
Social Integration of social media with the

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application will increase the number of users.
1.4 Timeframe
Area of impact Timeframe
Strategy 1month
Customer 2 months
Financial 2 months
Operational 3 months
Social 1 month
1.5 MOV statement
The development of the new system will generally beneficial in giving a number of
benefits to the farmers, government as well as the wholesalers regarding data updating, handling
as well as uploading. Moreover, it is analyzed that the organization “Globlex” aims to generate
proper amount of revenue due to the utilization of application by large number of wholesalers as
well as farmers.
Part 2: Scope
2.1 Definition of project scope
The scope includes the development of a mobile support system by Globlex for
providing support as well as help to the farmers in order to properly collect, gather as well as
contribute valuable data to the farmers that would guide them in farming. This will be beneficial
for other parties including the government as well as wholesalers who generally wants to get
access of the farming details.

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2.2 Scope management plan
The scope should be accomplished effectively by using proper monitoring of the project
progress on a weekly basis. In addition to this, the other steps that are essential to be utilized are
are elaborated below:
 Planning the scope properly be defining, managing and validating requirements
 Collecting the needs of the project by using interviews, surveys as well as group
discussion
 Defining the scope by involving the project staffs
 Creating a work breakdown structure of the project
 Validating the scope of the project by accepting the project deliverables
 Lastly, the scope should be controlled effectively by taking the assistance of the project
team
2.3 Resource list
People
Technology

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Hardware Computer, desktop, harddisk
Software MS project software, Android Studio
Other
 Training: Proper training opportunity will be given to the team in order to improve their
skills and knowledge in app development
 Travel: Travelling allowances will be given to the team if the team member work after
their shift hours.
Part 3: Work breakdown structure
3.1 Work breakdown structure
Figure 1: Work breakdown structure
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3.2 Project activities
Figure 2: Project activities
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3.3 Resource estimate
Figure 2: Resource activities
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3.4 Gantt chart
Figure 3: Gantt chart
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3.4 Project budget
Figure 4: Project budget
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Part 4: Risk analysis and plan
4.1 Assumption
It is assumed that access of some confidential data will only be approved with the help of
the project government
4.2 Risk determination framework
The five different risks that generally can occur due to the mobile support application
development are listed below:
 Cyber attack
 Data breach
 Schedule slippage
 Budget shortage
 Quality risk
4.3 Risk analysis
Risk Description Impact Probability Responsible Strategy
Cyber attack It is found
that due to
cyber-attack,
confidential
data of the
clients can be
hacked.
High High IT manager Installation of
proper
security
system will
be helpful in
avoiding such
issues.