Blunt ServiceNow talk with practical teeth.
CJ & The Duke is a high-energy ServiceNow commentary show built around practical field judgment. It moves from app anatomy and post-deployment momentum to hiring signals, networking habits, AI-assisted learning, and community events.
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CJ & The Duke is a ServiceNow commentary show for people who live close to the platform and care whether the work actually lands. It is loud, direct, and practical. Episodes often start from a familiar ServiceNow situation: building an app, interviewing talent, recovering momentum after go-live, learning with AI, or trying to make a professional network less awkward. From there, the conversation turns toward the evidence that separates useful work from performative activity. Outcomes matter. Reporting matters. Stakeholders need to know what question an application answers and what value it is supposed to produce. The show also spends time on the craft of identifying real ServiceNow skill. Definitions are not enough. Candidates need to explain contrast, context, consequences, and why a piece of platform knowledge mattered in practice. Technical learning gets the same treatment. Script includes, Flow Designer, GlideAjax, reusable logic, and beginner exercises are discussed through the lens of what helps someone become more capable without copy-pasting their way into trouble. Post-deployment episodes push practitioners to keep listening inside the business after launch. The point is not just to close a project, but to spot the next problem the platform can solve. Career-focused conversations are unusually concrete about networking, message history, memory, relationship maintenance, and the small structures that make follow-up less performative. Guest episodes bring in named community voices around nullEDGE, Knowledge, field service management, identity governance, and broader ServiceNow ecosystem work. AI is present, but the show treats it as a vehicle rather than the destination. If it creates value, it belongs in the toolbox. If it is just a buzzword, the conversation moves on. The result is a fast-moving, opinionated show for ServiceNow builders, learners, and people involved in hiring who want platform talk grounded in examples, pressure, and consequences.
Made for: ServiceNow practitioners, people involved in hiring, and learners who want direct platform commentary tied to real implementation work. It especially fits listeners who care about outcomes, maintainability, and career growth inside the ServiceNow ecosystem.
What sets it apart: The show mixes technical ServiceNow detail with candid judgment, career tactics, and community context. It repeatedly asks what the work proves, who it helps, and how to tell whether someone actually understands the platform.
Authentic, Authoritative, Unapologetic ServiceNow commentary by Cory "CJ" Wesley and Robert "The Duke" Fedoruk
A ServiceNow app without measurable outcomes? CJ & The Duke will have you asking where the graph is.
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A practical ServiceNow discussion that ties app design to outcomes, reporting, and evidence.
A ServiceNow application earns attention when its purpose is tied to outcomes, reporting, and proof that the work mattered. CJ and the Duke use the anatomy of an app as a practical way into the questions that should shape a build: why it belongs on ServiceNow, what it needs to…
A practical guide to asking harder-to-fake ServiceNow interview questions.
ServiceNow hiring is treated here as more than a check for memorized platform vocabulary. CJ and the Duke look at how interviewers can tell whether a candidate has actually worked through the problems they describe, especially when polished answers can make shallow experience…
A grounded pitch for practical ServiceNow learning, with AI treated as useful but not required.
The nullEDGE conversation works best when it keeps the pitch practical. J. Spenson and Jeff Jesse frame the virtual conference around sessions they wanted to attend themselves, with room for customers who are not ready for AI or Now Assist.
A practical reminder that post-go-live momentum depends on curiosity, listening, and initiative.
Post-deployment momentum comes through here as a discipline teams have to practice after go live, rather than a natural next step. CJ and the Duke stay close to the lull that can settle in once a rollout is complete, then frame a practical way forward: keep paying attention to…
A practical ServiceNow lesson on script includes, reusable logic, and the judgment AI-assisted learning still requires.
CJ and the Duke frames the future of work through a practical ServiceNow lesson, starting from the familiar feeling that AI is moving fast and can be hard to track, then bringing the focus down to script includes.
Business technology risk, translated fast.
Live VMware shop talk, community news and lab lessons
Frank enterprise tech talk, often recorded at the event itself
CJ and The Duke use ServiceNow ReleaseOps as a starting point to talk about the anatomy of an app, not just the build bits.
CJ and The Duke explain how to find top-tier ServiceNow talent when the interviewer is not a top-tier ServiceNow executor.
CJ and The Duke speak with Jace Spenson and Jeff Jesse about “The nullEDGE conference,” a free virtual ServiceNow event with 40 sessions and no sponsors this year.
CJ and the Duke focus on how to avoid the post-go-live stall in ServiceNow by using reporting, curiosity, value validation, grooming, and initiative.
Corey and Duke focus on what new ServiceNow learners should study now that AI is changing how work gets done, and they repeatedly come back to ITIL Foundation, ITSM, task, and custom apps as the baseline.
A weekly networking flow starts with four or five people selected through gratitude, impact, and instinct.
CJ and The Duke deliver authentic, unapologetic commentary on ServiceNow, focusing on security and governance with a sponsored segment on Clear Sky's identity management solution.
CJ and the Duke discuss ServiceNow and promote Clear Sky's identity governance solution built natively on the platform.