Create a Kanban of your Team Project with two user stories EACH in To-Do, Doing, and Done columns. (You are welcome to use/reuse these stories in the Kanban your team has created for the given case study).

A-2: Agro FarmFarm Management System Agro Farm Inc. The following requirements are for a bypothetical farm in a developing South Asian country (say, on the outskirts of Pune, India) called Agro Farm. This farm is the result of a merger of several small farmers from multiple villages and is now working as a large corporate entity. Agro Farm is a collaborative farming enterprise that is now in dire need of a sophisticated software system to support its rapidly growing work. The farm management system (FMS) is to be developed in order to provide online real-time support for the numerous routine and unique processes relating to farming. FMS Project-Background Information Agro Farm is a conglomerate of many farms working in unison to derive the benefits of farming technologies. FMS is a software system that is designed to support the many farming-related processes. FMS is an online, Internet-based system based on a cloud architecture that is meant to provide value to farmers in many different and challenging conditions of weather, markets, exchange rates (for overseas sales), and legal variations. FMS is to be developed by a group of consultants (You), who are supposed to be experienced in the software industry, creating and deploying software solutions for various types of business problems (You). Following are the major requirements of this project: - Support to the farming community in terms of their planning, strategies, and operations of the farm. - Enabling collaboration at both individual and farm levels between the many types of farmers in terms of what they should be producing and how they should help each other in production. - Enhance operational (daily) decision-making between collaborating farms in terms of watering (e.g., optimum time for irrigation), electricity usage, harvest protection (e.g., protection from birds, insects through use of pesticides), and related routines. - Enable context-based decision-making (creating the context based on the location of a group of people). For example, if the weather forecast changes and it indicates more rain in the coming week than earlier forecast, that information should be disseminated to a large group of farmers through multiple channels (e.g., radio, mobile) and in multiple language formats. - Enable dynamically changing farming processes depending on the situation (e.g., early rain forecast resulting in preponing the harvesting; or the availability of a larger labor force during certain seasons can be used to plan and carry out harvesting, whereas at other times, such as during festival seasons, there would be no farm activities. - Provide support in restoration processes (e.g., rejuvenation and restoration of a piece of land after harvesting) through data collection and analysis of similar crop-land-weather combinations. Each piece of land has different requirements for restoration before the next crop can be sowed. This can include activities such as burning of stubs, sprinkling organic restorers, and resting the land. - Provide support in identifying local and overseas markets for the farming communities based on past data (statistical analysis) as well as changing conditions. This is an important requirement of ABS because currently the farming conglomerate is not able to identify and sell electronically. - Enable farmers and farming communities to keep up with the myriad changing government regulations and its compliance-both in terms of growing crops and in terms of their sale (especially overseas sale with associated taxes and tax breaks). - Provide assistance (links and advice) for supporting functions related to finance-such as borrowing, easy repayments, and insurance. Once you understand and interpret the requirements, you will realize the following major areas in this project (to help you create the architecture): - Players - these are the actors/users of the system. All systems have actors who aim to achieve their business goals through the system. You are provided a generic description of some of the players. You must identify additional players, name them, and model them in the actor diagram. - Farming portal (FP) is the portal through which individual farmers and farm groups can undertake informative and collaborative business transactions. - Regulatory portal (RP), wherein the regulatory compliance is recorded and executed. - Administrative portal (AP) is accessed by the IT staff to carry out admin functions such as backups and other maintenance functions. With a cloud-based strategy, these functions will reduce as all the data and applications will be hosted, secured, and maintained on the cloud. - Interactions-this is part of the earlier transaction processing architecture, but here it focuses on service-based interactions that will cut across multiple organizational boundaries/ firewalls. Key Players There are a number of players (also called stakeholders) in the FMS. These players are typically the people responsible within an organization for the creation and maintenance of information that can be productized. There are also administrative functions wherein the IT staff is responsible for entering and maintaining of farming-related data. The partnering, collaborative farms will access FMS portals to interact, exchange information, and provide combined services. In addition to the aforementioned end users, there are also administrators of the system, both within the organization and external to the organization, who will be maintaining the data, information, and applications. The following examples are some of the key players in FMS: - Farmers-are the main stakeholders in agriculture. They are our business customers for whom our organization provides products or services. Comprising men and women, segmented into different sized (small, medium, or large farms) and type (e.g., wheat, sugarcane, livestock, cotton) of farmers. - Retailers-buy in bulk and packages and deliver farm produce to end users, i.e., customers. - Suppliers-provide tools, equipment, and products needed for agriculture; they also lend their services to farmers when needed. Sellers and marketers - handle the coordination of sales of Agro Farm's produce. They also take care of the import and export of farm produce. This activity is also carried out by agents who play the role of broker in the farming industry. - Researchers - a team of people who carry out the agriculture research and see the scope and advent of new technologies, as well as equipment that could be made useful in farming. - Experts-provide advice to farmers and help support them. - Local regulators-government officers who look after the rural land acquisitions, sales, manage records and registration. - Weather forecasters - part of the government sector, and a helping resource to our main stakeholders and local regulators. They provide weather-related updates and information. Farming Portal The FP is the portal for end users (clients). This portal is made up of: - The individual farmer-looking for information about operational (routine) activities to enable him to schedule his day. - The farm itself-operated by the farmer or his representative - to undertake more strategic activities relating to watering, protecting, and harvesting. - Collaboration (group) of farms-based on business intelligence for the agricultural domain, the information obtained here will used be to strategize collaboratively for what a group of farmers should do in terms of what to farm (so that they are not competing against each other), when to sow seeds, and when and how to harvest (to ensure distribution of labor, for example). Regulatory Portal This is a portal that will be used by government, semigovernment agencies, and government contractors to provide input to farming communities in terms of rules and regulations that can help them with their crop strategies, harvesting, taking advantage of collective bargaining, and complying with rules and regulations. This portal also provides information related to the many tax rules, additional Value Added Tax (VAT)/Goods Services Tax (GST) taxes, and tax breaks. Administrative Portal This is the internal portal that enables administration of the system. This portal can include creation of "farms," provision of logins-passwords for individual farms, enabling mobile access over mobile networks, security and protection of data, backups, and archiving of redundant data. Interactions The farmer at an individual level and other users (such as regulators) have a need to interact with FMS through various means such as face-to-face contact, phones, and faxes. A need is felt for this interaction to be better supported by providing the staff who handle the interaction with detailed information on the user. The user may be simply enquiring or, alternatively, a registered user of Agro Farm who is calling for or accessing online the information he/she is looking for. FMS is required to have a call center support module that will handle these calls. Identifying the caller and displaying his/her detailed information to the support staff is crucial for the farmer users. The traditional means of interaction are also augmented by FMS by improving, docu- the caller and displaying his/her detailed information to the support staff is crucial for the farmer users. The traditional means of interaction are also augmented by FMS by improving, documenting, and even analyzing emails, blogs, web site access, and mobile (smartphone) support