Presentations and Papers - Marek Wakulczyk

• Maritime Helicopter Acquisition Project's Integrated Information Environment. Presented at the Department of National Defence Software Workshop, Ottawa, Ontario, February 2002.

• A Metric Between SW-CMM Levels. Presented at Software Engineering Institute's 14th Annual Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, February 2002.

• All Change Agent - No Burnout. Presented at Software Engineering Institute's 13th Annual Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2001.

• All Change Agent - No Burnout. Presented at 57th Annual American Society for Quality (Rochester Section) Conference: Innovative Approaches to Quality, Rochester, New York, March 2001.

• Improving Culture with Metrics. Presented at 57th Annual American Society for Quality (Rochester Section) Conference: Innovative Approaches to Quality, Rochester, New York, March 2001.

• New Era at Maintenance Squadron. Contact newspaper, Vol 34 No 36, September 27, 2000. By Paul Doucette, quoting Marek Wakulczyk et al.

• Centre 'One Stop Shop' for Aircrew. The Trentonian newspaper, No 115, September 25, 2000. By Ernst Kuglin quoting Marek Wakulczyk et al.

• MOC 500 Survey - Research Findings Related to Occupational Amalgamation. Presented at Canadian Forces Aerospace Engineering Symposium, Cornwall, Ontario, September 2000.

• High Performance Change Agents. Communiqué, Published by the Human Development and Leadership Division of the American Society for Quality, Spring 1999.

• Collecting Performance Measurement Data, Using It to Support Performance Management. Presented at Perform'99 - Integrating Performance Management in Government, as organized by the Institute for International Research (IIR), Ottawa, January 1999.

• Occupational Nursing in a Time of Competing Loyalties. Presented as guest speaker for University of Ottawa Occupational Nursing course NSG 4402,Professional Ethics in Occupational Nursing, October 1998.

• Replacing The “Can-Do” Attitude with An Ethical Voice. Prepared for Ethics in Canadian Defence Conference, October 1998; Co-author : G Coutu-Wakulczyk, RN, PhD.

• SPI & Y2K: Software Process Improvement and the Year 2000 Bug. Presented at the Year 2000 Management Seminar, Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and the Institute of Internal Audit (IIA), Winnipeg, February 1998.

• Organizing the Organization: Defining the Need to Integrate Performance Measurement at All Levels of Operation. Presented at Perform '98 - Implementing Business Planning and Performance Measurement in Government, as organized by the Institute for International Research (IIR), Edmonton, Alberta, February 1998.

• Prepared Statement (bilingual) given to the Manitoba Legislative Task Force on Canadian Unity,Winnipeg, Manitoba, 10 January 1998. Chairman: Waldron N. Fox-Decent.  Final report to The Honourable Gary Filmon, Premier of Manitoba, is dated 2 March 1998.

• Metrics Fundamentals. Presented at the Aircraft Maintenance Quality Symposium, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 1997.

• Adding Software to your Quality Toolkit. Presented at Manitoba Quality Network's Quality Focus '97 conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 1997.

• Storyboarding for Great Communication. Presented at Manitoba Quality Network's Quality Focus '97 conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 1997.

• Air Force Cultural Change: Where Are We Now - Where Might We Go. Presented at Air Command Commander's Combined Training Session, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 1997.

• Success is not Accidental: S-CMM Level 2 in 2 1/2 Years. Crosstalk - The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, internet version of Vol. 10 No. 9, September 1997, Software Technology Support Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.

• The Quality and Excellence Framework: A Management System for the New Air Force. Presented at the Sixth Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Miami, Florida, May 1997.

• The Successful SEPG: S-CMM Level 2 in 2.5 Years. Presented at the Ninth Annual Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1997.

• Formal Statement presented to The Special Advisory Group on Military Justice and Military Police Investigation Services. Chairman: The Right Honourable Brian Dickson, PC, CC, CD. Members: Lieutenant-General Charles H Belzile, CMM, CD (retired); Mr. JW Bud Bird, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 19 February 1997; Final report to The Honourable M. Douglas Young, P.C., M.P. Minister of National Defence and Veterans Affairs is dated 25 March 1997.

• Metrics, the Quality & Excellence framework, and Business Planning. Presented at the Air Force Business Planning Conference, RCAF Mess, Ottawa, 21 August 1996.

• The Meeting is in 5 Minutes, a five-part humorous column on issues related to TQM and reengineering. Initially published September 1996 - January 1997 . Roundel - Canada's Air Force newspaper, Canadian National Defence, Air Command Headquarters, Winnipeg, Manitoba:

• Continuous Improvement Loop  (also reprint in Qnews - Manitoba's Quality Newsletter May 1997)
• Force Field Analysis
• Metrics
• Dearly Departed  (also reprinted in Qnews - Manitoba's Quality Newsletter November 1996)
• Root Cause Analysis
• Process Definition.

• NSSF- Now in the World's Top 18%, Communications and Electronics Newsletter, Vol 34 No. 2 1996, Canadian Forces National Defence Headquarter, Ottawa.

• On Spotchecking, Roundel - Canada's Air Force newspaper, Vol 4 No. 2, September 1996. By Brenda Jasper interviewing Marek Wakulczyk.

• Spotcheck Self-Assessments. Presented at the Fifth annual Advanced Technology Workshop (USA sessions), USAF Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts, August 1996.

• SEPG Spotcheck: an Inexpensive Metric for the Software Capability Maturity Model. Presented at the eighth annual Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1996.

• Guest panelist on the issues of metrics in software process improvement and S-CMM application. Presented at the Eighth Annual Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1996.

• Total Quality Management and Change Management. Presented at the Air Command Telecommunications and Information Services Strategic Planning Session, Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 1995.

• Change Management. Presented to all personnel of 9 Wing Canadian Forces Base Gander, Newfoundland, November 1995.

• Strategic Planning. Presented to senior staff of 9 Wing Canadian Forces Base Gander, Newfoundland, November 1995.

• NSSF Spot Check: A Metric Toward CMM Level 2. Crosstalk - The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Vol. 8 No. 7, July 1995, Software Technology Support Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Organizational Definition: a Methodical Approach Towards Effective Metrics. Presented at the Seventh Annual Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1995.

• Approche méthodique a une métrologie efficace, La revue du génie aérospatial et maintenance, vol 6 no. 1, printemps 1995, défense nationale, directeur général du génie aérospatial et maintenance, Ottawa, Canada.

• Guest panelist on issues of metrics and software process improvement. Presented at the Seventh Annual Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1995.

• Organizational Definition: a Methodical Approach Towards Effective Metrics. Aerospace Engineering Maintenance Journal, Vol 6 No. 1, Spring 1995, Canadian National Defence, Director General Aerospace Engineering and Maintenance, Ottawa, Canada.

• Software Process Improvement. Presented at the Air Combat Command Software Engineering for Tomorrow Conference, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, June 1995.

• Organizational Approach to Metrics. Presented at the Air Combat Command Software Engineering for Tomorrow Conference, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, June 1995.

• NSSF Team Resource Booklet and Effective Teams. Presented at the Air Combat Command Software Engineering for Tomorrow Conference, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, June 1994.

• Organizational Definition: a Methodical Approach Towards Effective Metrics. Crosstalk - The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Vol. 7 No. 10, October 1994, Software Technology Support Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.