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How to get better understanding of the users as a programmer

I work at a company that wants to be agile, but the business analysts often provide us “user stories” that are more solution than problem statement. This makes it difficult to make good design decisions, or in more extreme cases, leaves few design decisions to be made. It does not help the programmers understand the user’s needs or make better design decisions in the future. Our product owner makes an effort to provide us with problem statements, but we still sometimes get solution statements, and that tends toward a “code monkey” situation.

How to get better understanding of the users as a programmer

I work at a company that wants to be agile, but the business analysts often provide us “user stories” that are more solution than problem statement. This makes it difficult to make good design decisions, or in more extreme cases, leaves few design decisions to be made. It does not help the programmers understand the user’s needs or make better design decisions in the future. Our product owner makes an effort to provide us with problem statements, but we still sometimes get solution statements, and that tends toward a “code monkey” situation.

What is the difference between user requirements and system requirements?

From what I’ve read I believe user requirements are just the system requirements given in lay mans terms, is this correct? I’m specifically referring to the book “Software Engineering” by Ian Sommerville which I am obligated to follow. Given the example below from said book, why is there not a user requirement to match the second system requirement. For example “the user requires the report to be generated after 17.30 on the last working day of the month.” To me that is still in natural language so it is readable by the user. How much detail should be included in a user requirement vs system requirement and where do you draw the line?

User roles in database [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Storing menu items with user permissions (3 answers) Closed 9 years ago. What would be the most efficient way to store a users role(in my case) in the database? What my user table looks like: id int(AI) username varchar(80) password varchar(255) For example the rights would be like this: […]