3. Outsourcing is successful only when it simplifies the organization’s path to business outcomes.

TRUE. If you spend your day correcting the team that was hired to support you, you haven't outsourced—you’ve just added a management burden.

2. The cheapest hourly rate usually results in the lowest project cost.
FALSE. This is the "Cleanup Tax." If your internal team spends 10 hours fixing a freelancer's 20-hour task, you’ve paid for 30 hours of work. Generating Technical Debt just pushes the payment into the future—with interest.

1.A Senior freelancer automatically knows how to build according to your internal standards.
FALSE.Without a "Project Bible" and clear guardrails, even a Senior professional will build Stuff without the Standard.This leads to a fragmented architecture that your team will eventually have to rebuild.

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