Yergeshbayeva Aizhan CSSE-1111K Exercise 6 1) From a manager’s point of view, what is the importance of the major and minor milestones? From the manager's point of view the major milestones give visibly or progress to people external to the project. For example, project sponsors and customers. The table provides a set of classical major software project milestones together with their milestone goals and it is help to verify that the goals of the phase have been achieved. From the manager's point of view the minor milestones are the monitoring points you as project manager use to maintain control of day to day activities. They divide the elapsed time between major milestones into shorter intervals to give you the confidence that the major milestones will be met. They also give the team a sense of achievement by demonstrating progress on a daily or weekly basis.