Yeah, you nailed it. I have seen this done so poorly so many times that I simply tell people to rotate the ScrumMaster role. Otherwise they just make it into a manager.
A lot of times they want to keep the old Project Manager around, and that's very difficult to do. Project Managers and ScrumMasters are completely different animals. A few times as a coach I have literally thrown the PM out of the stand-ups and told them not to come back because they were turning it into a status meeting.
I'm not trying to plug coaching, but if you're trying Agile, you really need an independent outsider to help referee stuff like this. Maybe it's only the SM from the team down the hall, but stuff like broken standups can be impossible to fix without a little neutral nudging.
A lot of times they want to keep the old Project Manager around, and that's very difficult to do. Project Managers and ScrumMasters are completely different animals. A few times as a coach I have literally thrown the PM out of the stand-ups and told them not to come back because they were turning it into a status meeting.
I'm not trying to plug coaching, but if you're trying Agile, you really need an independent outsider to help referee stuff like this. Maybe it's only the SM from the team down the hall, but stuff like broken standups can be impossible to fix without a little neutral nudging.