By Bhavik Bhandari Traditionally, location, interior decor, amenities and price have been the key considerations for prospective homeowners. However, as the momentum in luxury real estate purchases increasingly shifts towards the tech-savvy Millennial cohort, technological innovation in living spaces has also come to the forefront. Estimates that smart home automation could grow to a USD 25.64 billion market in India by 2025 reflect this trend. Greater consumer awareness of home automation solutions, and the desire for the enhanced comfort and convenience that these bring to the table, will make smart...

by Venkateswaran KN I like to think of Software Development as the ultimate team sport. The parallels between sports and software development have been well documented. In fact, the “Scrum” in the Agile Methodology originates from rugby. A cursory google search would bring out the history and context of this term. At the risk of dating myself, I worked on a project executed under the much maligned and now almost extinct “Waterfall approach”. We will look at this in more detail a bit later on, but the Waterfall approach to...