Their selling point was that they can do Agile with an off-shore team. I have multiple issues with this concept starting with the fact that Sonata is a CMM Level 5 shop. Now, there is nothing written in stone saying that CMM and Agile are incompatible. However, my experience tells me that most CMM shops don’t get Agile because it is hard to break away from the overhead of CMM and move into the less formulaic Agile world.

The bottom line take-away from the call for me is that Sonata just don’t get Agile as a concept or a practice. This is yet another example of a company using Agile as a marketing hook. That frustrates me a lot because there are companies out there who have truly embraced Agile like Solutions IQ and Mountain Goat Software are done a disservice by companies like Sonata who only pretend for the sake of making a buck.