Production items, goods, or software products, that matures over time, similar to a banana lifecycle. Green during delivery, yellow (ripe) at the consumption time.
Mostly refers to an exaggeration of a Minimum Viable Product version of the software, being delivered to the users broken/buggy/unusable, and it's gradual updates and fixes after the release due to lack of time.
- Are we ready for the release?
- No! What we have is not even an MVP, it's a banana product.