“XP and Design – Where did the Design phase go?” was presented by Paulo Caroli & Sudhindra Rao at the “3rd IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology” held in Pune, India.

Paulo Caroli’s session on Refactoring to Patterns – a practical look into the Agile approach on Evolutionary Design’ presented at the IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology 2007 held in Oct 2007 in Pune, India. In this session, Paulo Caroli introduces Refactoring and TDD (Test Driven Development) as the foundation for Agile Evolutionary Design. He explains how the practice of Refactoring to Patterns permits code simplicity to turn into well-know design pattern using real world experiences and selected case studies to illustrate this concept.

Titus Brown is a well known name in the Python community. Apart from his work in Python, he is also a speaker on Agile development. In a recent interview with PythonThreads.com, he shared his thoughts on agile and test driven development.