Project information
- Category: Internal Productivity Application
- Client: Tripura State Forest Department
- Project period: 2020
- Project URL: Google Play store link
About this project
Tribhuvan Mobile app and the Tripura Forest Plantation Management System Web application were developed for managing the forest plantation activities of the Tripura Forest Department. The forest department needed to resolve pain points like absence of digital spatial database to understand the locations of forest plantations in various parts of the state, monitor the progress in plantation activities to achieve goals timely and ensure proper documentation of field activities for ensuring better transparency. The GPS data of the plantation was collected by Tribhuvan Mobile app using handheld Bluetooth linked GPS receivers developed by India’s premier National Remote Sensing Centre at Hyderabad.
The engineering part of the project was carried out by developers at the National Remote Sensing Centre at Hyderabad.
My Role (Deputy Conservator of Forests (IT & Statistics) in the Tripura Forest Department)
As the product manager on the product, I carried out the following:
- User interviews with officials at different levels of management to understand their requirements
- Develop EPICs and User Persona for the different categories of users
- Prioritization of Product Features
- Coordination and communication with the engineering team at NRSC Hyderabad
- Wireframing of key User Interfaces
- Testing of applications for detection of bugs and further refinement
- Testing of the handheld Bluetooth linked GPS devices in different forest terrains
- Development of user training tools
- Release of applications followed by detailed user feedback collection for releasing several versions of the software.