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As result of the globalization amplified by the starting digital transformation of old businesses, there is a steadily increasing demand of the companies for speed and flexibility often called agility. Many companies already use agile methods (like XP, Scrum or Kanban) and many developers are used to these already. Even if agile methods are an improvement they also introduce new problems because of their character of local optimization. This presentation and case study show how easily agile methods could be integrated into a critical chain project management (CCPM) environment and how project throughput has been increased by +270% (with same resources and same project mix). Additionally, the project lead time and the project delays were reduced dramatically. But method is nothing without people using it. So, the focus on the implementation of methods – the change – is getting more and more important. Even more the companies are often behind schedule and the competitors are already a step ahead. On the other side the running business must be kept stable. The change must be quick and secure and sustainable. This presentation shows how fast CCPM can be implemented. With good preparation and based on the S&T projects it was possible to implement full blown CCPM within 31 working days. The combination of agile and CCPM and the use of the S&T projects is a very powerful combination. The presentation and case study is the result of over 10 years of experience out of more than 15 successful implementations.