Waterfall method fails to account for unseen benefits

My epiphany for today comes from working with a team dedicated to developing software using a waterfall methodology, and how there is a decision patterns that leads teams to produce worse code.

#25 Never Convert Exception to String before Display Time

Proper handling of exceptions means that you keep it as an Exception object through all processes, particularly wrapping with another exception.  A common error I see programmers doing is to convert the Exception to a String and use that as part of a new Exception for rethrowing.  Don’t do this.