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one agrochemical laboratory at Sangli and spent Different Activities/Tasks/Modules identified
about seven years on doing different research on with their required time is given as follows-
agrochemicals. Activities/ Predecessor Optimistic Most Pessimistic
In 1990, he started a small unit at Shiroli MIDC, Modules time likely time
Kolhapur with the name ‘Shivam Agrochemicals time
Pvt. Ltd.’ and now a days, it is one of the leading A - 5 6 7
agrochemicals manufacturing company in India. B - 1 3 5
Initially they had only one manufacturing plant at C - 1 4 7
Kolhapur. To handle all administrative and Inventory D A 1 2 3
work (finished goods and raw material) they were E B 1 2 9
using one prewritten DOS based file processing
software. In the enitial days the usability and features F C 1 5 9
provided by the system were quite satisfactory, but G C 2 2 8
in current days the existing system fails to provide H E,F 4 4 10
different services and capabilities like sending SMS, I D 2 5 8
E-mail, Multiuser facilities and improved usability. J H,G 2 2 8
In the year 2010, Mr. Raj Patil decided to start
branches of Shivam Agrochemicals Pvt. Ltd at (Time given is in weeks)
Gujrat, Madhya Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh. Head
office of all branches of Shivam Agrochemicals is
at Kolhapur, and Top level management members
need to know daily working status and issues. But
the existing system fails to fulfil these needs. As an
IT expert suggest some solutions that helps to solve
these business issues.
In June 2011, Ms. Shivani, was selected as EDP
manager at head office of Shivam Agrochemicals
Pvt. Ltd. She studied all the business requirements
and gave proposal to top level management
regarding in-house up gradation of existing system
to web application. As a business analyst and
technical consultant, top level management of
Shivam Agrochemicals expect your opinion about Network diagram
in-house development and outsourcing the software
development. Also suggest necessary network
type and network topology suitable for Shivam
Agrochemicals Pvt. Ltd.
Finally, it is decided to upgrade the system from
DOS based to Web Application and also decided
different modules to be designed to handle all
business as well as management needs. The Project
manager created different estimations and schedules
needed to complete project.

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