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CJ & The Duke

CJ & The Duke

Robert "The Duke" Fedoruk & Cory "CJ" Wesley

Authentic, Authoritative, Unapologetic ServiceNow commentary by Cory "CJ" Wesley and Robert "The Duke" Fedoruk
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CJ & The Duke talk about ways a SerivceNow implementation can go wrong, how to detect red flags and avoid the consequences.
In this episode we discuss:
- Who's the Alpha?
- Documentation (oh yeah, we're going there AGAIN)
- Team composition, including allocation of the various resource types & time zone shenanigans
- Low value "best practice" focus
- Scope creep and project changes
- The Project Manager's scope

ABOUT US
Cory and Robert are vendor agnostic freelance ServiceNow architects.
Cory is the founder of TekVoyant.
Robert is the founder of The Duke Digital Media

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CJ & The Duke - Ep020 - The Thanksgiving Special
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11/26/20 • 32 min

CJ & The Duke celebrate American Thanksgiving by celebrating all the things they're thankful for in the ServiceNow space. ServiceNow concepts, tools, and people who contributed to the ecosystem or our lives within it. We could have filled 3 episodes with other people who have been invaluable for us. Once you really start exercising thanksgiving, its hard to stop.

LINKS!
ServiceNow List Navigation makes work blazing fast.
ShowXML - one of the greatest tools in the right-click menu.
Download Xplore - The greatest ServiceNow developer toolkit ever made.
Learn how to use Xplore - a 9 part tutorial
Get your ServiceNow Private Developer Instance
The ServiceNow Community
The ServiceNow Wiki (An Archive)
SNC Guru (No longer run by Mark Stanger, but still has all his ancient wisdom)
Contact Jeff Nicoll & Stephanie Fairbanks at JIT.
ShareLogic (formerly Whitespace Studios & creators of Unifi - the single greatest ebonding integration tool for ServiceNow)
VividCharts (the best data visualization and story telling platform on ServiceNow)
Joe Jogmen - VP at JIT and legendary implementer of ServiceNow
Dana Haines - Creator extraordinaire
Other Shout Outs: Mark Andrus, Aleck Lin, Tony Thavisouk, Donte Hooker, Etta Wilson (owner of GNIS consulting), Ben Thomas, Nathan Firth of NewRocket, Jace Benson of Jace.Pro, Andrew Barnes

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CJ & the Duke reflect on years of ServiceNow architecture experience and what architecture standards would have helped them. We discuss coding, vendor, documentation, midserver, upgrade and migration, as well as roadmapping standards and more.

IntegrityPro Consulting is a ServiceNow sales, services, training, & technology partner with deep expertise in organizational change management. Check out this partner showcase to learn more.

Mentioned in this episode:
- Episode 26 - Catalysts
- Documentation Standards
- Instance Scan

ABOUT US
Cory and Robert are vendor agnostic freelance ServiceNow architects.
Cory is the founder of TekVoyant.
Robert is the founder of The Duke Digital Media

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CJ & The Duke - Ep017 - The Worst Thing I've Ever Seen
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10/17/20 • 35 min

You can't rejoice in the victories unless you've been through the trenches. In this episode, CJ & The Duke discuss the worst things they've ever seen. Politics gone bad, lack of vision and direction, competing resources. If it's made you pull out your hair, we've probably seen it! This is the much requested war stories episode.

Our sponsor, DotWalk.io is the creator of Bootstrap, which reduces months of ATF setup in ServiceNow to the press of a button. Bootstrap was developed by long time ServiceNow employees to automate the population of ATF, rather than replace ATF feature.

ABOUT US
Cory and Robert are vendor agnostic freelance ServiceNow architects.
Cory is the founder of TekVoyant.
Robert is the founder of The Duke Digital Media

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What happens when we hit the record button without a plan? We talk about OCM, Docs, upgrade plans, and making your ServiceNow upgrades faster and smoother.

Thanks to our sponsors,
IntegrityPro Consulting is a ServiceNow sales, services, training, & technology partner with deep expertise in organizational change management. Check out this partner showcase to learn more.

Mentioned in this episode:
- Dotwalk.io - AI population of ServiceNow ATF cases.
- AutomatePro - Intelligent test automation for ServiceNow
ABOUT US
Cory and Robert are vendor agnostic freelance ServiceNow architects.
Cory is the founder of TekVoyant.
Robert is the founder of The Duke Digital Media

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CJ & The Duke - Ep018 - User Experience Is Life & Death
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10/23/20 • 31 min

CJ & The Duke talk about The Duke's recent medical issues and how horrific experiences with his hospital have reinforced his commitment to UX. The silver lining is a deep discussion on how ServiceNow holds the tech answers for problems that large prestigious hospital systems can't even get right. It's time to think bigger, and show how ServiceNow can make a huge difference, even when health and well being is on the line.

Our sponsor, DotWalk.io is the creator of Bootstrap, which reduces months of ATF setup in ServiceNow to the press of a button. Bootstrap was developed by long time ServiceNow employees to automate the population of ATF, rather than replace ATF feature.

ABOUT US
Cory and Robert are vendor agnostic freelance ServiceNow architects.
Cory is the founder of TekVoyant.
Robert is the founder of The Duke Digital Media

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CJ & The Duke - 7 Day ServiceNow Upgrade?! (With Mark Roethof)
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04/15/24 • 34 min

Special guest Mark Roethof joins us to discuss a massive ServiceNow upgrade executed in just 7 days using only out-of-box components.
Learn the tools he used and what it took to prepare. We also talk a bit about content creation and owning your journey.
Clone Management, Upgrade Monitor, Upgrade Center, ATF, Cloud Runner, Skipped Record Rules.

Very special thanks to our sponsor, Clear Skye the optimized identity governance & security solution built natively on ServiceNow.

EXTRA STUFF:
- Mark's absolutely ridiculous 250+ article mega thread.

ABOUT US
Cory and Robert are vendor agnostic freelance ServiceNow architects.
Cory is the founder of TekVoyant.
Robert is the founder of The Duke Digital Media

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CJ & The Duke - EP025 - Doomsday

EP025 - Doomsday

CJ & The Duke

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02/20/21 • 36 min

The most feared project in the ecosystem: the re-architecture. Restarting from scratch. Doomsday. CJ & The Duke discuss their past encounters with these ServiceNow projects and provide pragmatic advice on where to start and how to cope. We'll discuss
- Does planning come first or second?
- The Human Roadblock: Not everyone is onboard
- Articulating pain and paradise
- What to do with old data
- Good practices: Ingress documents, process charters, dev standards, vendor standards
- New tools that help: Instance scan, roadmap, catalog builder

Our sponsor, DotWalk.io is the creator of Bootstrap, which reduces months of ATF setup in ServiceNow to the press of a button. Bootstrap was developed by long time ServiceNow employees to automate the population of ATF, rather than replace ATF feature.

ABOUT US
Cory and Robert are vendor agnostic freelance ServiceNow architects.
Cory is the founder of TekVoyant.
Robert is the founder of The Duke Digital Media

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CJ & The Duke - EP037 - ServiceNow ecosystem thoughts Q3 2021
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08/28/21 • 43 min

With ServiceNow Rome release right around the corner, CJ & The Duke discuss their opinions on major changes to the platform and trends in the ServiceNow ecosystem. More importantly, what those trends mean for you: the admins, devs, indies, and consultants.

Shout out to sponsor IntegrityPro Consulting, a ServiceNow partner that brings serious Organizational Change Management to every deployment. Check out this partner showcase to learn more.
Cory is a vendor agnostic freelance ServiceNow architect & founder of TekVoyant.
Robert is the CXO of VividCharts, but you can check out all his ServiceNow media at theduke.digital.

Mentioned in this episode:
- BreakPoint with Chuck Tomasi: "What's Hot in Rome with Adam Stout"
- When In Rome: First Impressions
- Ep31: Establishing ServiceNow Architecture Standards
- Ep36: ServiceNow Product Owner Bootcamp

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Brendan Montima is three weeks into the "My Tech Best Friend" ServiceNow bootcamp and is already showcasing great work. He's going to be a great addition to the ServiceNow world, and we got to interview him FIRST. We talk...
- The importance of DOING
- How ServiceNow compares to learning other techs
- What parts of the platform excite us
- Myths and misconceptions about ServiceNow

Very special thanks to our sponsor, Clear Skye the premiere ID Governance & Automation solution built natively on Servicenow. Check out the episode we did with their VP of Engineering. And Magic Mind, the world's first "productivity drink", and the cure to The Duke's 3pm crash. Learn more about Magic Mind.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS
Brendan Montima is an aspiring ServiceNow Developer taking the MTBF bootcamp

ALSO MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE
Go With the Flow - A Youtube playlist about ServiceNow Flow Designer

ABOUT US
Cory and Robert are vendor agnostic freelance ServiceNow architects.
Cory is the founder of TekVoyant.
Robert is the founder of The Duke Digital Media

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How many episodes does CJ & The Duke have?

CJ & The Duke currently has 116 episodes available.

What topics does CJ & The Duke cover?

The podcast is about Agile, Podcasts, Technology and Business.

What is the most popular episode on CJ & The Duke?

The episode title 'Ep017 - The Worst Thing I've Ever Seen' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on CJ & The Duke?

The average episode length on CJ & The Duke is 34 minutes.

How often are episodes of CJ & The Duke released?

Episodes of CJ & The Duke are typically released every 12 days, 17 hours.

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The first episode of CJ & The Duke was released on Dec 12, 2019.

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