How would the team have any idea whether they can meet a deadline without estimates? I like the way we've set it up at my company. In product/engineering, we u

How would the team have any idea whether they can meet a deadline without estimates? I like the way we've set it up at my company. In product/engineering, we use our estimates and plan our projects in quarters and project more or less based on how many points teams have completed in the past. Outside of product/engineering, we report milestones on our projects with expected delivery dates. We don't mention the points because they mean nothing to the rest of the business without context. The only big problem I have with pointing is when those numbers are used as performance metrics or judged by outside stakeholders without context on the work. I think we've solved for that and get to reap the benefits