I-Crop – Online Cash Marketplace For Grains

Project Information

This report depicts the role of implementation of a successful website platform or the online crop buyers and sellers.  It is expected that this platform designed for I-Crop will allow the clients to buy crop through online channel. The area of impact of ranking and the involved stakeholders are also illustrated in this report.

Desired areas of impact

Area of Impact	Rank (1 from 5)
Consumers: I-Crop consumers are the most important individual assets who buy products directly from the providers and avail services also.  It will successfully influence the advertisement and marketing team members. Save Time On Research and Writing Hire a Pro to Write You a 100% Plagiarism-Free Paper. Get My Paper	1
Operation: In order to successfully run the applications the operations are to be incorporated considering the basic needs of the project.	2
Social: While operating the website proper social support is mandatory for the success of the project to significantly resolve the administrative errors.	4
Strategy: Professional business strategies will help the owners to gain high competitive advantages and commercial revenues as well.	3
Financial: The more technical advancement is possible as much capital will be invested for the project. It is defined that, the system will successfully implemented if proper financial support is incorporated to it.	5

 
Involved stakeholders to the project

Stakeholder	Expectation
Project manager	To complete the project within budget and time
Finance manager	Positive feasibility study
System developer	Develop a secured and user friendly system for the users
Tester	Test the website for I-Crop before launching

The project should have to be completed within 8 months.

Project scope

• Project objectives and goals understanding
• The platform should have a feedback option for change management
• Affordable service should be avail by the project owners
• Online payment option should be possessed by the website platform. 

Project schedule

WBS	Task Name	Duration	Start	Finish	Predecessors	Resource Names	Cost
0	Project schedule for I -Crop	163 days	Fri 2/2/18	Tue 9/18/18			$79,128.00
1	Project initiation phase	37 days	Fri 2/2/18	Mon 3/26/18			$18,864.00
1.1	Requirements gathering	5 days	Fri 2/2/18	Thu 2/8/18		Resource manager ,Project manager ,Marketing manager	$4,080.00
1.2	requirements analysis	6 days	Fri 2/9/18	Fri 2/16/18	2	Technical trainers ,project sponsors	$3,360.00
1.3	Analyzing current issues of Virtucon	6 days	Mon 2/19/18	Mon 2/26/18	3	Resource manager ,application programmer	$2,016.00
1.4	Setting project goals	5 days	Mon 2/19/18	Fri 2/23/18	3	Resource manager	$880.00
1.5	collecting functional requirements	9 days	Tue 2/27/18	Fri 3/9/18	4	R &D team	$2,448.00
1.6	Collecting non functional requirements	5 days	Mon 3/12/18	Fri 3/16/18	5,6	Project manager	$2,000.00
1.7	Project feasibility study	6 days	Mon 3/19/18	Mon 3/26/18	7	Project manager , Website developer	$4,080.00
1.8	Milestone 1: Completion of project initial documentation	0 days	Mon 3/26/18	Mon 3/26/18	8	application programmer ,Operation manager ,Project manager	$0.00
2	Project planning phase	44 days	Tue 3/27/18	Fri 5/25/18			$13,536.00
2.1	Web front end design	3 days	Tue 3/27/18	Thu 3/29/18	9	application programmer ,Technical trainers ,Website developer	$2,136.00
2.2	Website specification analysis	6 days	Fri 3/30/18	Fri 4/6/18	11	Website developer ,system designer	$2,736.00
2.3	Developing communication planning	9 days	Mon 4/9/18	Thu 4/19/18	12	HR manager	$1,656.00
2.4	stakeholder management plan	8 days	Fri 4/20/18	Tue 5/1/18	13	Operation manager	$1,600.00
2.5	Procurement planning	10 days	Wed 5/2/18	Tue 5/15/18	14	Marketing manager	$2,400.00
2.6	Risk management program	8 days	Wed 5/16/18	Fri 5/25/18	15	Operation manager ,Resource manager	$3,008.00
2.7	Milestone 2: Completion of project planning phase	0 days	Fri 5/25/18	Fri 5/25/18	16	Operation manager ,Marketing manager	$0.00
3	Project development phase	49 days	Mon 5/28/18	Thu 8/2/18			$24,144.00
3.1	Prototype outline design	10 days	Mon 5/28/18	Fri 6/8/18	17	system designer ,application programmer ,Website developer	$6,160.00
3.2	Prototype specification	12 days	Mon 6/11/18	Tue 6/26/18	19	Website developer ,system designer	$5,472.00
3.3	Determining other project ideas	12 days	Mon 6/11/18	Tue 6/26/18	19	Project manager	$4,800.00
3.4	Web design ideation	8 days	Wed 6/27/18	Fri 7/6/18	20	application programmer	$1,280.00
3.5	Connectivity with database	9 days	Mon 7/9/18	Thu 7/19/18	22,21	Resource manager ,Technical trainers	$4,032.00
3.6	Details function verification	10 days	Fri 7/20/18	Thu 8/2/18	23	Marketing manager	$2,400.00
3.7	Milestone 3: Successful design plan coding	0 days	Thu 8/2/18	Thu 8/2/18	24	system tester ,application programmer ,Project manager	$0.00
4	Project testing phase	21 days	Fri 8/3/18	Fri 8/31/18			$10,296.00
4.1	Project unit testing	6 days	Fri 8/3/18	Fri 8/10/18	25	system designer ,system tester	$3,456.00
4.2	Integrated testing	6 days	Mon 8/13/18	Mon 8/20/18	27	system tester ,coder	$3,600.00
4.3	Acceptance testing	9 days	Tue 8/21/18	Fri 8/31/18	27,28	application programmer ,Operation manager	$3,240.00
4.4	Milestone 4: Approval of the prototype	0 days	Fri 8/31/18	Fri 8/31/18	29	system tester ,system designer	$0.00
5	Closure phase	12 days	Mon 9/3/18	Tue 9/18/18			$12,288.00
5.1	stakeholders signoff	6 days	Mon 9/3/18	Mon 9/10/18	30	HR manager,  Operation manager ,Project manager	$4,704.00
5.2	Submitting final report	6 days	Tue 9/11/18	Tue 9/18/18	32	Technical trainers ,R &D team ,Marketing manager ,Operation manager ,Website developer	$7,584.00
5.3	Milestone 5: Post maintenance program development	0 days	Tue 9/18/18	Tue 9/18/18	33	Project manager	$0.00

WBS	Task Name	Duration	Start	Finish	Predecessors	Resource Names
6	Milestone 1: Submission of initial document	0 days	Mon 3/26/18	Mon 3/26/18	8	Operation manager
7	Milestone 2: Submission of planning details	0 days	Fri 5/25/18	Fri 5/25/18	16	Resource manager
8	Milestone 3: submission of prototype or testing	0 days	Thu 8/2/18	Thu 8/2/18	24	R &D team
9	Milestone 4: Approval of the prototype	0 days	Fri 8/31/18	Fri 8/31/18	29	Marketing manager
10	Milestone 5: post maintenance program submission	0 days	Tue 9/18/18	Tue 9/18/18	33	Operation manager

 
Assumptions

• To complete the project in 8 months
• To complete the project within the estimated budget of $80,000

Risk assessment

Risks	Strategies
Resource over allocation	I-Crop should focus on developing online crop buying selling platform to the consumers. Based on the project specifications the project manager should assign the project resources at the project initiation phase.
Distributed project team	Due to the distributed project team internal conflict may occur and that can be resolved is the project team members follow open communication approach.
Lack of technical experienced members	Proper technical and development program

Team philosophy

The aim of Globex is to deliver an affordable, user friendly as well as business effective crop selling buying online platform to the consumers of I-Crop.

Set of verification activity

Verification Activity	When?
Software and hardware verification	Initiation
Feasibility study	Initiation
Project management practice adoption	Planning

Validation Activity	When?
Prototype testing	Testing
Experimental trial	Execution
Review documents	Monitoring phase
Considering proper project practices	Initiation phase

This article portrays the importance of stakeholder’s involvement to a project for its successful implementation. Tough, for this project the specifications are nominated for building projects. It is determined that, with different groups of project phases different stakeholders are associated (Heravi, Coffey & Trigunarsyah, 2015). This successful incorporation can be add on to the services based on the complexity of the activities and the skills and knowledge of the project stakeholders. It s examined that the level of involvement for this project is possibly mentioned for four group of stakeholders. In each of the phase their involvement plays key role. The article also reviewed that highest involvement with the project is served by the project manager whereas contractors have a lowest rate of engagement to the panning process of the projects. It also defines that the involvement of the stakeholders can improve the business effectiveness during the project initiation up to the project planning phase. How by controlling the interaction a project can be completed with the support of the stakeholders is also elaborated in this article.

This journal reflects the details of practical application as well as empirical evaluation of the reference for project management forecasting. It is defined that with the successful implementation of practical implementation the ideas of project manager will grow at a higher rate. The difference between the traditional project managers and the current project managers are also illustrated here considering the identification of the reference classes, probability distribution and class distribution (Batselier & Vanhoucke, 2016). How an empirical database management system can restrict the data flow control in a project is also illustrated in this journal. In addition to this, for selecting the reference class how the probability distribution approach is beneficial are ate illustrated here.  Not only this but also, the details application of the RFC method and their 3 steps implementation process are also illustrated in this journal. Even for multiple experimental study also this approach is very much beneficial that is also elaborated here considering Monte Carlo Simulation approach. 

Project Description

According to Lappe and Spang (2014), any company will be able to obtain commercial profit from the competitive market if it invests lot in project management. Considering the relationship between the costs and project management profits are all elaborated in this report. How mostly the business organizations gain commercial profit from their application are also elaborated considering both the qualitative and quantitative profits. In addition to this, the different evolutionary stages are also illustrated in this journal. There must be an accurate balance between the investment and the profit that could have gained from the project management prcatices are also mentioned here. In order to accomplish any project how the estimated cost can be structured is calculated considering the Return in Investment (ROI) cost benefit analysis approach.

Closure checklist

The testing phase of the online platform development project of ICrop has been successfully completed

• The challenges are all resolved with the risk mitigation strategies
• Final project report is also being hand over to the sponsors

Evaluation details

The MOV for the I-Crop online website development project will be functionally evaluated by the project manager before the final launching. The project manager is responsible to control and monitor progress of I-Crop project so that it can meet the preliminary set objectives and other assumptions. It is defined that the project is approved by the project manager and the project sponsors within the estimated time frame of 8 months and within the budget of $80,000. It has also successfully avoided the issues of over time allocation and over resource allocation.

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