Mobile Based Farmer Support Application Development Project for Globex

This project report details the development of a mobile-based farmer support application (MBFSA) by Globex Farm Equipment. It outlines the project description, including stakeholder analysis (farmers, wholesalers, government officials, business analysts, and Globex representatives), and the project's measurable organizational value (MOV). The report covers the identification of the area of impact, value, and metrics. It includes a detailed project scope, outlining deliverables, and resources, as well as a high-level work breakdown structure (WBS) with milestones and deliverables. The project also addresses risk analysis, including risk identification, analysis, and mitigation plans, and details a quality management plan. Finally, the report includes a closure and evaluation section with checklists and cost analysis, assessing the project's overall success and impact on stakeholders, particularly farmers, in enhancing productivity and reducing costs. The project aims to save the input cost of the farming operations and strategic farming options can easily be managed using the end product of this project.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Project Description.................................................................................................................3
Part 1: MOV...............................................................................................................................3
Identification of area of impact..............................................................................................3
Identification of the value......................................................................................................4
Metric.....................................................................................................................................5
Time Frame stating target Metric...........................................................................................6
MOV statement......................................................................................................................7
Summarization of the MOV...................................................................................................8
Part 2: Project Scope..................................................................................................................8
Out of scope...........................................................................................................................8
Scope Management................................................................................................................9
Scope management plan.........................................................................................................9
Process of Scope Verification................................................................................................9
Project Deliverables...............................................................................................................9
Resource list.........................................................................................................................10
Part 3: High level WBS..............................................................................................................0
Milestone and deliverables.....................................................................................................2
Part 4: Risk analysis and Plan....................................................................................................4
Risk identification..................................................................................................................4
Risk Analyse..........................................................................................................................5
Part 5: Quality management Plan...............................................................................................6
Philosophy of the team...........................................................................................................6
Ensuring the quality...............................................................................................................6
Activity validation..............................................................................................................6
Activity verification...........................................................................................................7
Part 6: Closure and Evaluation...................................................................................................7
Project evaluation.......................................................................................................................8
Bibliography...............................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The notable determination of the paper is to focus on the development of a mobile
based software by Globex Farm Equipment for the farmers, as it would help them to increase
the productivity and reduce the different types of overhead costs.
Project Description
There are different categories of stakeholders allied with this software development
project such as the employees of the Globex Corporation, whole sellers, government official
and a network of farmers and business analyst.
Part 1: MOV
Identification of area of the impact
The different areas of impact of the new mobile based software are presented in the
following table.
Area of impact Description
Customer The main objective of the mobile based
software is to focus on the expectation of
the farmers who is the prime customer of
the software.
Strategy The main strategy behind having this
software based application is to assist the
farmers to plan their crops in the coming
years (Jain, Kumar & Singla, 2015). The
planning of the crops can be done in a
professional manner using the software
based application (Olson, 2017). The
everyday can be also be done using the
software based application (Li, et al., 2019

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). The strategy of the operations can also be
done using the new application.
Financial The main determination of the new
software is to save most of the input cost of
the farming operations (Walisadeera,
Ginige & Wikramanayak (2015).
Operational The strategic farming options can easily be
managed using the end product of this
project.
Social Thus software can have huge social benefit
as the software can be helpful for the future
planning for the farmers (Martin, 2015).
Farmers can analyse, manage and collect
information using the new software.
Table 1: Different areas of new software
(Source: Created by author)
Identification of the value
Value
Area of impact
Better Faster Cheaper Do More
Operational 3 2 2 2
Strategy 3 4 4 4
Customer 3 2 4 4
Social 2 1 5 3
Financial 3 5 5 2
Data on the basis of a scale between 1-5.
Metric
Stakeholder Rank Expectations Target

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Farmers 01 Farmers are expected to
selected their preferred
choices ( Giri et al., 2017)
Medium
Government 02 The information of the
weather conditions and
the market demands must
be provided to the
development team of the
application with in the
completion of the first
prototype (Stuart et al.,
2018).
High
Wholesalers and
market
03 The selection of the
geographical areas must
be stated to the
development team within
the selection of the first
prototype (Golonan et al.,
).
Low
Globex representatives 04 The Globex
representatives must be
suggesting the farmers to
grow crops by with the
help of the data collected
from the government
officials (Styring, et al.,
2016).
High
Business analyst 05 Analysing the business
uncertainties of the
software development is
expected from the
Business Analyst
(Pongnumkul, Chaovalit
& Surasvadi, 2015).
High
Table 2: Metric table
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Time Frame stating target Metric
All the activities of this project has to be completed within the scheduled time which
is 6 months and the first prototype must be completed within the first 2 months (Ryu et al.,
2015).
ID Outline
Number
Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors Resource Names Cost
0 0 994929NN 182 days Tue 5/21/19 Wed 1/29/20 $205,912.00
1 1 Requirement gathering 25 days Tue 5/21/19 Mon 6/24/19 $25,632.00
2 1.1 Gathering of the
requirements
4 days Tue 5/21/19 Fri 5/24/19 Business
analyst
$6,400.00
3 1.2 Scope management plan 4 days Mon 5/27/19 Thu 5/30/19 2 Project manager $9,600.00
4 1.3 Project management plan 3 days Fri 5/31/19 Tue 6/4/19 3 Project manager $7,200.00
5 1.4 Initial risk assessment 4 days Wed 6/5/19 Mon 6/10/19 4 Risk analyis officer $640.00
6 1.5 Application test planning 4 days Tue 6/11/19 Fri 6/14/19 5 Software tester $960.00
7 1.6 Develop quality plan 4 days Mon 6/17/19 Thu 6/20/19 6 Software engineer $832.00
8 1.7 M1: Requirements
complete
2 days Fri 6/21/19 Mon 6/24/19 7 $0.00
9 2 Planning and Designing 37 days Tue 6/25/19 Wed 8/14/19 $31,280.00
10 2.1 Create conceptual design 4 days Tue 6/25/19 Fri 6/28/19 8 Design $960.00
11 2.2 Create logical design 2 days Mon 7/1/19 Tue 7/2/19 10 Business analyst $3,200.00
12 2.3 LG1 weather information
system
3 days Wed 7/3/19 Fri 7/5/19 11 Developer $1,200.00
13 2.4 LG1Market information
system
3 days Mon 7/8/19 Wed 7/10/19 12 Development
team
$480.00
14 2.5 F1 Farmer management
system
3 days Thu 7/11/19 Mon 7/15/19 13 Developer $1,200.00
15 2.6 WM1 wholesale
management system
3 days Tue 7/16/19 Thu 7/18/19 14 Developer $1,200.00
16 2.7 Create implementation plan3 days Fri 7/19/19 Tue 7/23/19 15 Business analyst $4,800.00
17 2.8 Create contingency plan 1 day Wed 7/24/19 Wed 7/24/19 16 Project accounting manager$240.00
18 2.9 Building 4 days Thu 7/25/19 Tue 7/30/19 17 Development manager $1,280.00
19 2.10 Make prototype 4 days Wed 7/31/19 Mon 8/5/19 18 Business analyst $6,400.00
20 2.11 Execute project
management plan
4 days Tue 8/6/19 Fri 8/9/19 19 Project
manager
$9,600.00
21 2.12 Create database 3 days Mon 8/12/19 Wed 8/14/19 20 Design $720.00
22 3 Build Physical design 50 days Thu 8/15/19 Wed 10/23/19 $30,000.00
23 3.1 LG2 weather information
system
5 days Thu 8/15/19 Wed 8/21/19 21 System
developer,Developer
$2,720.00
24 3.2 LG2 market information
system
6 days Thu 8/22/19 Thu 8/29/19 23 Development
manager
$1,920.00
25 3.3 F2 farmer management
system
6 days Fri 8/30/19 Fri 9/6/19 24 Developer $2,400.00
26 3.4 WM2 wholesale
management system
5 days Mon 9/9/19 Fri 9/13/19 25 Developer $2,000.00
27 3.5 Data entry 5 days Mon 9/16/19 Fri 9/20/19 26 Business analyst $8,000.00
28 3.6 Development media content3 days Mon 9/23/19 Wed 9/25/19 27 Business analyst $4,800.00
29 3.7 Review coding 5 days Thu 9/26/19 Wed 10/2/19 28 Development manager $1,600.00
30 3.8 Prepare unit test 3 days Thu 10/3/19 Mon 10/7/19 29 Software tester $720.00
31 3.9 Verification of application
built
5 days Tue 10/8/19 Mon 10/14/19 30 Software
engineer
$1,040.00
32 3.10 Create training material 3 days Tue 10/15/19 Thu 10/17/19 31 Business analyst $4,800.00
33 3.11 M3: Build phase complete 4 days Fri 10/18/19 Wed 10/23/19 32 $0.00
34 4 Deploying 45 days Thu 10/24/19 Wed 12/25/19 $91,920.00
35 4.1 Finalise implementation plan33 days Thu 10/24/19 Mon 12/9/19 33 Project manager $79,200.00
36 4.2 Finalise contingency plan 3 days Tue 12/10/19 Thu 12/12/19 35 Project manager $7,200.00
37 4.3 Prepare deployment 3 days Fri 12/13/19 Tue 12/17/19 36 Business analyst $4,800.00
38 4.4 Deploy application 3 days Wed 12/18/19 Fri 12/20/19 37 Project accounting manager$720.00
39 4.5 M4: Deploy phase
complete
3 days Mon 12/23/19 Wed 12/25/19 38 $0.00
40 5 Closing 25 days Thu 12/26/19 Wed 1/29/20 $27,080.00
41 5.1 Conduct post project
review meeting
5 days Thu 12/26/19 Wed 1/1/20 39 Project
manager
$12,000.00
42 5.2 Archive documents 4 days Thu 1/2/20 Tue 1/7/20 41 Business analyst $6,400.00
43 5.3 Conduct perform and
recognition
5 days Wed 1/8/20 Tue 1/14/20 42 Software tester $1,200.00
44 5.4 Prepare feedback for team 3 days Wed 1/15/20 Fri 1/17/20 43 Farmer $120.00
45 5.5 Provide feedback to team 4 days Mon 1/20/20 Thu 1/23/20 44 Design $960.00
46 5.6 Release team 4 days Fri 1/24/20 Wed 1/29/20 45 Business analyst $6,400.00
Business analyst
Project manager
Project manager
Risk analyis officer
Software tester
Software engineer
Design
Business analyst
Developer
Development team
Developer
Developer
Business analyst
Project accounting manager
Development manager
Business analyst
Project manager
Design
10/23
System developer,Developer
Development manager
Developer
Developer
Business analyst
Business analyst
Development manager
Software tester
Software engineer
Business analyst
Project manager
Project manager
Business analyst
Project accounting manager
Project manager
Business analyst
Software tester
Farmer
Design
Business analyst
5/6 8/26 12/16 4/7 7/28
November 11 July 1 February 21 October 11
Figure 1: Time frame of this project

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MOV statement
The incorporation of the new farmer support application will be helping the farmers to
enhance their productivity and reduce the time and cost of their everyday operations.
Summarization of the MOV
Measurable organizational value Description
Project Description The aims and objectives of this project is the
development of a new farmer support
application.
Area of impact of the project Identification of the operational, customer,
social, financial as well as strategic impact
Valuation of the project All the stakeholders must be performing with
full potential and low budget (Sarangi,
Umadikar & Kar, 2016).
MOV statement The role of the stakeholders is very much
important to enhance the efficiency of the
software.
Timeframe of the MOV 180 days
Table 3: Summary of MOV
(Source: Created by author)
MOV Statement
Area of impact Explanantion
Customer The project will be successful if it successful enhances the production
of the crops for the farmers.
Strategic The prototype of the new system must be built within the first 2
months,
Financial The growth of this system must be seen over a period of time.
Operational The turnover of the crops should also be increased after the
development of the new application.
Social Cost of farming should be reduced significantly.
Table 4: MOV Statement
(Source: Created by the author)

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Part 2: Project Scope
 The prime opportunity of this software development project is to development
software within the budget and time.
Out of scope
 Professional training schedules for the farmers.
 Installation of new software for the farmers.
 Save details of the government data.
Scope Management
All the members of the Globex Corporation along with the other stakeholders of the
project must be following effective resource management procedures to utilize each of the
resource in an organized manner to complete this project within the given time period
(Soundar et al., 2017).
Scope management process
Plan Scope Management
Management of the resources who will be working on this project. Management of the
agricultural products and services.
Collect requirements
Formal documentation can be very much useful to define the roles of each of the
stakeholders of this project. The expectation of the farmers should be stated in the document.
Define Scope
The prime scope of this project is the development of a mobile based farmer support
software within the budget and time to increase the productivity of crops and reduce overhead
costs of the project.

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WBS
Each of the phases of this project must be finishing in time so that the project do not
run out of resources. Detailed WBS is presented in the following sections of this paper.
Validate Scope
The stakeholders of this project must be following the project schedule which will be
presented in the following table.
Project Deliverables
ID Outline
Number
Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors Resource Names Cost
0 0 994929NN 182 days Tue 5/21/19 Wed 1/29/20 $205,912.00
1 1 Requirement gathering 25 days Tue 5/21/19 Mon 6/24/19 $25,632.00
9 2 Planning and Designing 37 days Tue 6/25/19 Wed 8/14/19 $31,280.00
22 3 Build Physical design 50 days Thu 8/15/19 Wed 10/23/19 $30,000.00
34 4 Deploying 45 days Thu 10/24/19 Wed 12/25/19 $91,920.00
40 5 Closing 25 days Thu 12/26/19 Wed 1/29/20 $27,080.00
10/23
5/6 8/26 12/16 4/7 7/28
November 11 July 1 February 21 October 11
Figure 2: Deliverables of the project
(Source: Created by the author)
Control Scope
The requirements of the projects are described below:
 High performance of the stakeholders with effective communication device.
 High specification of the software to address the future farming issues must be
matched with the initial scope of the project.
 Better co-ordination of the stakeholders to finish the project within the given time
period

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Process of Scope Verification
Resource list
ID Resource Name Type Material Label Initials Group Max. Units Std. Rate Ovt. Rate Cost/Use Accrue At Base Calendar Code
1 Project manager Work P 100% $300.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
2 Business analyst Work B 100% $200.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
3 Developer Work D 100% $50.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
4 Design Work D 100% $30.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
5 Development
manager
Work D 100% $40.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
6 Risk analyis offi cer Work 100% $20.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
7 Hardware Material H $50,000.00 $0.00 Prorated
8 Project accounting
manager
Work P 100% $30.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
9 Development team Work D 100% $20.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
10 System designer Work S 100% $14.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
11 System developer Work S 100% $18.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
12 Software tester Work S 100% $30.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
13 Software engineer Work S 100% $26.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
14 Software Material S $4,500.00 $0.00 Prorated
15 Farmer Work F 100% $5.00/hr $0.00/hr $0.00 Prorated Standard
Figure 3: Resource list of this project
(Source: Created by the author)

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Part 3: High level WBS
ID Outline
Number
Task
Mode
Task Name Duration Start Finish
1 1 Requirement gathering 25 days Tue 5/21/19Mon 6/24/19
2 1.1 Gathering of the requirements 4 days Tue 5/21/19Fri 5/24/19
3 1.2 Scope management plan 4 days Mon 5/27/19Thu 5/30/19
4 1.3 Project management plan 3 days Fri 5/31/19 Tue 6/4/19
5 1.4 Initial risk assessment 4 days Wed 6/5/19Mon 6/10/19
6 1.5 Application test planning 4 days Tue 6/11/19Fri 6/14/19
7 1.6 Develop quality plan 4 days Mon 6/17/19Thu 6/20/19
8 1.7 M1: Requirements complete 2 days Fri 6/21/19 Mon 6/24/19
9 2 Planning and Designing 37 days Tue 6/25/19Wed 8/14/19
10 2.1 Create conceptual design 4 days Tue 6/25/19Fri 6/28/19
11 2.2 Create logical design 2 days Mon 7/1/19Tue 7/2/19
12 2.3 LG1 weather information
system
3 days Wed
7/3/19
Fri 7/5/19
13 2.4 LG1Market information
system
3 days Mon
7/8/19
Wed
7/10/19
14 2.5 F1 Farmer management
system
3 days Thu
7/11/19
Mon
7/15/19
15 2.6 WM1 wholesale
management system
3 days Tue
7/16/19
Thu
7/18/19
16 2.7 Create implementation plan 3 days Fri 7/19/19 Tue 7/23/19
17 2.8 Create contingency plan 1 day Wed 7/24/19Wed 7/24/19
18 2.9 Building 4 days Thu 7/25/19Tue 7/30/19
19 2.10 Make prototype 4 days Wed 7/31/19Mon 8/5/19
20 2.11 Execute project management
plan
4 days Tue 8/6/19 Fri 8/9/19
21 2.12 Create database 3 days Mon 8/12/19Wed 8/14/19
22 3 Build Physical design 50 days Thu 8/15/19Wed 10/23/19
23 3.1 LG2 weather information
system
5 days Thu
8/15/19
Wed
8/21/19
24 3.2 LG2 market information
system
6 days Thu
8/22/19
Thu
8/29/19
25 3.3 F2 farmer management system6 days Fri 8/30/19 Fri 9/6/19
26 3.4 WM2 wholesale
management system
5 days Mon
9/9/19
Fri 9/13/19
27 3.5 Data entry 5 days Mon 9/16/19Fri 9/20/19
28 3.6 Development media content 3 days Mon 9/23/19Wed 9/25/19
29 3.7 Review coding 5 days Thu 9/26/19Wed 10/2/19
30 3.8 Prepare unit test 3 days Thu 10/3/19Mon 10/7/19
31 3.9 Verification of application built5 days Tue 10/8/19Mon 10/14/19
32 3.10 Create training material 3 days Tue 10/15/19Thu 10/17/19
33 3.11 M3: Build phase complete 4 days Fri 10/18/19Wed 10/23/19
34 4 Deploying 45 days Thu 10/24/19Wed 12/25/19
35 4.1 Finalise implementation plan 33 days Thu 10/24/19Mon 12/9/19
36 4.2 Finalise contingency plan 3 days Tue 12/10/19Thu 12/12/19
37 4.3 Prepare deployment 3 days Fri 12/13/19Tue 12/17/19
38 4.4 Deploy application 3 days Wed 12/18/19Fri 12/20/19
39 4.5 M4: Deploy phase complete 3 days Mon 12/23/19Wed 12/25/19
40 5 Closing 25 days Thu 12/26/19Wed 1/29/20
41 5.1 Conduct post project review
meeting
5 days Thu
12/26/19
Wed
1/1/20
42 5.2 Archive documents 4 days Thu 1/2/20 Tue 1/7/20
43 5.3 Conduct perform and
recognition
5 days Wed
1/8/20
Tue
1/14/20
44 5.4 Prepare feedback for team 3 days Wed 1/15/20Fri 1/17/20
45 5.5 Provide feedback to team 4 days Mon 1/20/20Thu 1/23/20
46 5.6 Release team 4 days Fri 1/24/20 Wed 1/29/20
Business analyst
Project manager
Project manager
Risk analyis officer
Software tester
Software engineer
Design
Business analyst
Developer
Development team
Developer
Developer
Business analyst
Project accounting manager
Development manager
Business analyst
Project manager
Design
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Development manager
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Developer
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Business analyst
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Business analyst
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May 12, '19 Jun 2, '19 Jun 23, '19 Jul 14, '19 Aug 4, '19 Aug 25, '19 Sep 15, '19 Oct 6, '19 Oct 27, '19
Figure 4: Project schedule with time and activity
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Figure 5: High level WBS with milestone and deliverable
(Source: Created by the author)