Newbie question: how do you actively develop pipelines?

I’m relatively new to the career of devops so I’m picking up lots of ideas and approaches on how to run things well. One of them is working on pipelines, using the company’s resources (in this case, Jenkins with an on premise cluster). I often face the cases where a single completely avoidable or basic issue kills the job and causes an entire rerun of it just to see if the error is fixed. This takes time, resources, and a lot of mental energy, and I’m looking to