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	Coaching
A sophisticated form of teaching which expands the client's awareness of the internal and external roadblocks and speed bumps on the way to reaching their goal. Coaching assists in designing and supporting an environment which reinforces and drives the desired change.

	Guidance
An advice towards doing something that provides direction as to a decision or a course of action. It is an information aimed at resolving a problem or a difficulty.

	Our Customers
Current nVentive customers include : Caisse de dépot et placement du Québec Microsoft TD Insurance Canada Department of National Defense bNurture DRL Systems Fortsum

	About nVentive
nVentive is a Montreal-based privately held IT services company focused on improving the quality of resources and solutions available through coaching and guidance. Its mission is to empower customers by leveraging its expertise with cutting edge .net technologies combined with an agile methodology to create a unique synergy between planning, modeling and development efforts. nVentive increases a development team's velocity. Simply put, we make you go faster. Technologies and methodologies change quickly, but your business changes at an even quicker pace. Let us help you with the technology and methodology part. Let us help you build a team that is able to support your business. Partnering with us is buying insurance that your software development projects will succeed.

	About Erik Renaud
Erik Renaud is an agile coach and co-founder of nVentive, a new concept where software development teams leverage coaching and guidance packages to build better software. His current mandates concentrate on large financial institutions creating new teams that directly support their primary activities. Erik has over 10 years of experience developing, coaching teams to architect, model and analyze software solutions. He ultimately helps them develop the solution using cutting edge .net technologies and offers guidance packages that accelerate the development phase. He is a certified ScrumMaster, which helps him lead teams to success, and often offers training in object oriented technologies. He can be contacted at erik.renaud@nVentive.net, or seen anywhere kendo is practiced.

	About François Tanguay
François Tanguay is an agile coach and co-founder of nVentive, a new concept where software development teams leverage coaching and guidance packages to build better software. He presently helps large scale institutions achieve their desired results through VSTS, agile processes and software frameworks. For over 10 years, his modeling skills and inventive ideas have guaranteed interesting discussions. Renowned as a « Microsoft patterns & practices champion », you’ll be sure to find him blogging about « Enterprise Library », « Entity Framework », LINQ, IoC, MVC, DDD and PPP. He can be reached at francois.tanguay@nVentive.net.