You are absolutely correct. Defining agile as principles, or scrum as a method is correct, but doesn't change how the terms are used. Turning dysfunctional teams around is something I'm reasearching (as identifying them is easy).
> If there's one thing I feel that is absent from the Agile Manifesto, it's psychological safety. We have learned in the past 20 years how important this to a teams success. https://old.reddit.com/r/agile/comments/jd29lf/the_elephant_...
Just today, I started reading The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle. The first two chapters are great and it addresses exactly this question.
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