In all honesty, the shortcomings written about here are not a defect in the process(es), but appear to me to be simply weak project management. Especially sinc

In all honesty, the shortcomings written about here are not a defect in the process(es), but appear to me to be simply weak project management. Especially since your ScrumMaster just up and quit. That is unheard of in a strong project-oriented culture. You need a strong leader to get the team to buy-in to these processes. Of course nothing will work if you don't do that - people are generally averse to change and will do anything to prove "new ways" will never work.