Do you believe that Project Managers should be involved in Micro-Managing some aspects of a project ? Is yes, what specifically ?

In my experience I have micro managed to some extent ,i would say 90% 'HAND-HOLD' and 10% micro management in some of the situations like

1.Initially after setting the ground rules and making sure all the team members are following it or not.In one of my projects I was working with a small team who are working from the same location and I set the rule that all the team members to follow same office timing so that overlapping of time among all the team members will be more and it can help to build trust,help each other etc.But one person never used to follow the time that was making things difficult so initially i had to see at what time he is coming(micro-manage) and correct that.
2.During estimation times - I make it a point to involve the team member to come up with the estimation of the task he/she is going to work on but sometime they may end up adding some buffer time .So I used to micro-manage and understand and convert that into open communication from micro-management.

Having said that I am sure most of us will do micro-managing but it all depends on how much we are doing and are we able to succeed in not getting it exposed to the other people(team,stakeholders etc)

Thanks
Bala

Project Managers should not micro-manage, but I understand it is needed when you don't trust your team members. I would say it is important to fix the "trust" in the long term, for example, improving the competence by training or recruiting better resources. Micro-management should only be a short term fix, otherwise the Project Manager would be very tired and cannot manage the big picture.

Nobody, whether PM or not, should micro-manage.

Micro-management implies too much management. In this day and age where our time is at a premium and everything is about removing anything that does not add value, micro-management has to go.

Will there be occasions where you have to be more involved? Sure. Just recognize that it may not be management per se but rather training, coaching or mentoring.

I understand that a PM should not micro-manage, but how do you manage a team that don't have the habit to plan its tasks? I'm often forced to micro manage my team because of that.