Editing Software crisis (section)

== Causes ==
The causes of the software crisis were linked to the overall complexity of hardware and the software development process. The crisis manifested itself in several ways:
* Projects running over-budget
* Projects running over-time
* [[Program optimization|Software was very inefficient]]
* Software was of low quality
* Software often did not meet requirements
* [[Spaghetti code|Projects were unmanageable and code difficult to maintain]]
* [[Vaporware|Software was never delivered]]

The main cause is that improvements in computing power had outpaced the ability of programmers to effectively use those capabilities. Various [[Software development process|processes and methodologies]] have been developed over the last few decades to improve [[software quality management]] such as [[procedural programming]] and [[object-oriented programming]]. However, software projects that are large, complicated, poorly specified, or involve unfamiliar aspects, are still vulnerable to large, unanticipated problems.