[DanielBMarkham]

I've seen a lot of teams in a lot of organizations, both bad and good.

Good teams cheat in bad organizations. That's why they're good teams. Whatever your metric, code quality, quality of life, being kind and supportive -- in organizations that pervasively do it bad, good teams cheat in order to do it well.

I think the trick is that only a small group of people know that they cheat, otherwise some mid-level manager would come down on them, hard.