Project Management

Is there any value at all in project management? I guess the coordination and leveraging of resources. Most of the time, project management is an insidious affair. It becomes a shadow organization, the bizzaro version of authentic functions. It keeps watch over and scolds people doing their jobs. It becomes the judge and jury without much accountability itself. People may spend more time reporting progress than actually moving the ball forward. It is highly demotivational to those being monitored. It can often lose track of what it is "managing" toward -- is it achievement of efficiency objectives or overarching business goals? What does it do to customer service? What is its net value to a company? What are the alternatives, e.g., should project management be done on a local level within each organizational area? To see what Scott Adams (Dilbert) and others say about project management, see here.