Let us discuss why Presentation skills are important for a developer. As a developer, you need to document all the work done by you so that others can go through the word document in your absence. That is you should have your presentation skills so that you can write all the work done by you in different types of forms such as word document or powerpoint presentation. Whenever you are doing the knowledge transfer to other developers they need these reference documents. The reference documents are important because in your absence if any issues arise other developers can refer to these documents and then check on them.

Presentation skills are important because if you are a developer and then you will have appraisals. In appraisals, the main goal is to present yourself and the work done by you. If you present well then you might get a good rating. The work done by you will be given a priority but your presentation skills are more important because even if you did more work and you are not able to present it then it is a loss to you because you are not able to present it then your team lead or project members may not able to understand all the hard work done by you.

When you are going on long leave and you are providing the KT session then the way you present is important because the other resource will be replacing you and he must have all the knowledge that you have worked because if in future any issue occurs in your absence then he will need to resolve it, so it entirely depends on the way you present it to him. During the project presentations to the clients, it is very important to have good presentation skills because based on your presentation skills your client can decide whether to take the project going forward or cancelling the project.