Man Days Must Die! 7 Steps to Implementing Points

Me: Let's estimate this!
Team: Ok I think it will take 5 & a half Hour-
Me:

Why is it so hard to move away from hours and man-day estimates?? After this session, you should be able to answer these tough questions:

- Why do so many groups prefer hours to points?
- Who influences this decision? Why?
- Why should we start using them instead of good ole hours?
- How do I convince my customer / team this is the way to go?
- What are the risks?
- How will you mitigate them?
- How do we start using points?
- When will be proficient? How do we know we are doing a good job?
- What tools can we use to track our progress & projects?

I'd like to leave a portion of this session open for Q&A but also so that people who have been there & done that can add to the discussion. I want to hear YOUR ideas about how moving to points helped your projects, let's use the power of the community to help people moving in this direction.