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Second getting them to understand Story Points, a seemingly meaningless measurement, seemed to be a non-starter for them.

deal hours first This is where ideal hours came to the rescue. They were far more able to wrap their heads around ideal hours i.e. if you lock the developers and testers in a room with zero interruptions, how long would it take. I figured that once they got their initial stories estimated in ideal hours down, switching to Story points will be easy as they would have established a scale of reference to compare against. This approach worked really well. They're now into their 3rd Sprint and now that they have an existing scale, whether the number is in ideal hours or story points or dog points for that matter, it really doesn't matter any more. If you're new to agile estimating, and you're having trouble coming to terms with Story Points try this first and then make the switch later.