Project Management: Mobile Based Farmer Support Application for Globex

This project management assignment details the development of a Mobile Based Farmer Support Application (MBFSA) for Globex, aiming to increase farmer productivity. The project covers various aspects, including the project's Measurable Organizational Value (MOV), which focuses on improving efficiency, customer satisfaction, and financial profit. The assignment outlines the project scope, resource list, and a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with associated project activities, resource estimation, and a project schedule and budget. It also includes a risk analysis and mitigation plan, addressing potential challenges such as project delays, budget overruns, and security concerns. Furthermore, the assignment presents a quality management plan, verification, and validation activities to ensure project success. Finally, it includes a project closure checklist and an annotated bibliography, providing a comprehensive overview of the project management process for this mobile application development.

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Project management: Mobile based farmer support application
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Project description...........................................................................................................................3
1: MOV............................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Desired impact area...............................................................................................................4
1.2 Value of the project...............................................................................................................4
1.3 Illustration of the metric........................................................................................................4
1.4 Timeframe for the impacted area...........................................................................................5
1.5 Statement of MOV.................................................................................................................5
Part 2: Scope....................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Project scope..........................................................................................................................6
2.2 Plan for scope management...................................................................................................6
2.3 Resource list...........................................................................................................................6
Part 3: Work breakdown structure...................................................................................................7
3.1 Work breakdown structure....................................................................................................7
3.2 Project activities.....................................................................................................................8
3.3 Resource estimation...............................................................................................................9
3.4 Project schedule...................................................................................................................10
3.5 Project budget......................................................................................................................11
Part 4: Risk analysis and plan........................................................................................................12
4.1 Assumption..........................................................................................................................12
4.2 Risk determination framework............................................................................................12
4.3 Risk analysis........................................................................................................................12
Part 5: Quality management plan..................................................................................................17
5.1 Project quality statement......................................................................................................17

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5.2 Verification activities...........................................................................................................17
5.3 Validation activities.............................................................................................................17
Part 6: Closure and evaluation.......................................................................................................17
6.1 Project checklist...................................................................................................................17
6.2 Annotated bibliography.......................................................................................................18
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................19
Appendices....................................................................................................................................21
Appendix 1: Annotated bibliography........................................................................................21

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Introduction
Globlex is one of the organizations that is currently engaged in supporting the farmers so
that the production from the farmlands can get increased by minimizing other types of
expenditures that are required for farming. The organization generally has 30 years of experience
within this business and therefore they generally aim to improve the efficiency of the
organization. The organization generally contracted with Virtucon and asked them to create a
mobile based support system such that the framers can be capable of quickly make planning and
undertake proper decision for managing the operations.
Project description
The MBFSA that is mainly developed with the help of the Virtucon will generally
provide a number of opportunities to the farmers through which the farmers can be able to get
improved efficiency of farming and can make appropriate planning as well as decisions for the
overall business. Ina addition to this, the application will provide them the facility of registering
themselves on the app with proper opportunity of adding, updating as well as deleting the crops
and their quantities. With the help of this app proper information dependent on the geographical
locations of the farmers as well as the crops which are preferred are generally utilized by the
wholesalers. The entire project of MBFSA development will generally get finished within 115
days.

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1: MOV
1.1 Desired impact area
Area Impact
Operational 1
Financial 2
Customer 3
Strategy 4
Social 5
1.2 Value of the project
 The application of MBFSA assists in giving better services to the clients or the customers as
the application generally stores the information including the location, preferred crops, crops
which grown as well as their quantities.
 The operations with the assistance of MBFSA can be handled much faster and therefore the
work that is associated with the project generally gets managed quite efficiently.
1.3 Illustration of the metric
Area Metric
Operational The business operations can be handled
efficiently with MBFSA
Financial The increment in the financial profit mainly
improves the condition of the organization.
Customer The customers get attracted due to the

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functions that are given by MBFSA that
further increased the number of users.
Strategy Utilization of effective management strategies
are needed to be utilized.
Social Successful integration of the MBFSA with the
social media enhances the brand image and
also attracts customers or users.
1.4 Timeframe for the impacted area
Area Timeframe
Operational 3 months
Financial 2 months
Customer 2 months
Strategy 1.5 Months
Social 1 months
1.5 Statement of MOV
The statement assists in suggesting that the MBFSA development not only providing a
number of facilities to the farmers but assists in enhancing the overall yearly profit of Globlex.

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Part 2: Scope
2.1 Project scope
The project scope mainly incorporates the MBFSA development which further including
coding, pilot project development as well as full version of the mobile application development.
Moreover, proper training facility should also need to be provided to the project team.
2.2 Plan for scope management
The plan that is generally created or developed with the helps in the project manager for
managing the scope effectively are listed below:
 Proper planning of the scope of the project during the planning phase
 Determining the resources with the help of the survey as well as other data collection
procedure
 Developing the plan for managing the scope
 Development of WBS by successfully disintegrating the activities that are involved in the
project
 Proper validation of the project scope
 Utilization of proper software tools for successfully controlling the entire project.
2.3 Resource list
Human resources:

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Hardware/software: The hardware and software requirements include:
 CPU
 Computer
 Hard disk
 Microsoft software
 Android studio
Others
 Training opportunity will be given to the team
 Allowances for travelling will be provided
Part 3: Work breakdown structure
3.1 Work breakdown structure
Figure 1: Work breakdown structure
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3.2 Project activities
WBS Task Name
0 MBFSA Development for Globex
1 Pilot Project
1.1 Collecting the project needs
1.2 Discussion on the requirements
1.3 Hiring team members
1.4 Assigning the prototype work
1.5 Developing the pilot project
1.6 Testing the project prototype
1.7 Handover of the pilot project
1.8 Review and approval
2 Preparing full version of MBFSA
2.1 Defining resources
2.2 Ordering resources
2.3 Hardware/software
2.4 Providing funds
3 Development of MBFSA
3.1 Requirement analysis
3.2 Coding
3.3 Installing the application platform
3.4 Running the prototype
3.5 Developing the architecture
3.6 Implementation of application
3.7 Testing
3.8 Determining issues
3.9 Final version
3.10 User end testing
3.11 Go live
4 Project Closing
4.1 Documentation
4.2 Appraisal
4.3 Sign off
4.4 Project closure

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3.3 Resource estimation
Figure 2: Resources linked with activities
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3.4 Project schedule
Figure 3: Project schedule
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3.5 Project budget
Figure 4: Project budget
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