Part V — What’s at Risk in the VSM
Part page — the chapters in this part (3).
The receipts attached to the charges in Parts One to Three, and to Chapter 25, are collected here and ordered by what they would tell an operator. The standard is named as Beer’s own; the charge is that the tradition kept his sentence and dropped his test.
Chapters in this part
- Ch 28 — What Would Count Against It? — Chapter 28 of Punch and Judy converts the book’s charges into registered conditions of disconfirmation, claim by claim, with the smallest fair test named for each.
- Ch 29 — The Two Cheapest Decisive Experiments — Chapter 29 of Punch and Judy proposes two decisive experiments and a cheaper re-analysis of existing data, none of them yet run.
- Ch 30 — The Bill: A Book Plus a Live Register — Chapter 30 of Punch and Judy prices the research program in cost bands, names who could run each item, and argues for a maintained live register instead of a printed list.
Status
Draft, Punch and Judy v0.5.0 (2026-08-16) — not project canon. This page is a reading aid: it says what the part does and lists its chapters. The part’s own argument, and every charge its chapters make, are the authors’ and are stated at chapter level, where the manuscript’s status notes apply.