I've been on scrum teams that work well. The reason they have worked well is because of the people on the team. Those people would have been a good team regardl

I've been on scrum teams that work well. The reason they have worked well is because of the people on the team. Those people would have been a good team regardless of the project methodology used. I've also been on scrum teams that do not work well. I've had multiple scrum masters on my teams who were essentially useless. As in the OP, they ran the standup wrong. The retro and demo sessions were just box ticking exercises. Ironically it seemed like they understood scrum less than everyone else on the team.