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The third and last article from short series also deals with the results of the study “Ardour Sourcing Pulse Check” by Ardour Consulting Group (www.ardour.de). Within this article we concentrate on the findings regarding the level of satisfaction and of achieving the customer’s targets. At the end we will introduce software called “Outsourcing Advisor” which addresses all important aspects and enables a fast and easy definition of a realistic outsourcing strategy.

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The second article of this small series concentrates on the results of the study “Ardour Sourcing Pulse Check” which was released several months ago by Ardour Consulting Group (www.ardour.de). Whereas the first article dealt with the problems within an outsourcing relationship, the most widely used pricing models and the selection of the right outsourcing strategy, the focus of this second article is on the average contract term as well as on identified success factors.

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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Broy, dean of the chair Software & Systems Engineering at the Technische Universität München and Dr. Marco Kuhrmann, published an article concerning project organisation and management in software engineering in the IT Freelancer Magazine 03/14. The article refers to their homonymous new book and deals with the difficulties faced by a project manager in software development that usually increase when using remote teams, regardless whether the IT teams are offshore or nearshore.

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The recently published study “Ardour Sourcing Pulse Check” (http://www.ardour.de/), by Ardour Consulting Group shows some interesting results on the German market of IT services which are in line with the pliXos experiences. These results and the corresponding recommendations to act from our perspective will be subject to a series of three articles, this being the first one.

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The recent study „IT Outsourcing Study Europe 2013“ from Whitelane Research reveals several facts which are in line with my personal experiences but seem not always to be discussed in public. Thus I am happy to see a recent report by a neutral body clearly indicating interesting results when it comes to IT outsourcing and especially offshore application development and maintenance.