I do Agree that managmenet is an Non Value Add to the project, having said that Client always expect quality at source or inbuilt quality and client do no pay for the Q . Its becomes vital for the company to add in between Value ad and non Value add something name Operational Value add. To matter of fact even client expects to follow various process and redundancy of reporting as well as work. We can streamline and minimize the said non project activites but cannot elimnate as its a risk to proejct itself.