It sounds like you're missing probably the most important part of agile which is "at regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then

It sounds like you're missing probably the most important part of agile which is "at regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly". In Scrum, it's retrospectives. Continuous improvement is a theme that runs across agile, scrum, lean. Without giving feedback, how are you going to improve?