Abstract Services outsourcing information technology is a strategy he has adopted today for information technology governance. The decision to opt for this strategy be take in order to maximize the benefits to the organization in terms of efficiency, profitability, sustained reductions in costs and utilization of available resources. But nevertheless, these decisions have not always been successful, as the process to achieve successful results, it is lacking in most of the time of formality and methodology to guide activities to be undertaken by both the customer and the supplier. This document aims to make a brief review of the literature in the area of information technology outsourcing, specifically in aspects such as models, methodologies and their governance. Analysis of the information collected allowed evidence that although there are models and good practices information technology outsourcing, none of them covers the activities necessary for the client and the provider, in defining specific roles, tasks for each of the phases of the process, useful deliverables for each, or a measurement system that has tools to evaluate it.