The piece that caught my eye was this part of the article:
He was painfully shy. His English was halting. When he tried to describe his invention, the sentences tumbled out incoherently.The quote above describes several software developers I know, downright to the (for other, "normal" people) halting English.
The story is about a twelve-year-old Masai boy, Richard, who gave a TED speech about his invention to protect cows from nightly attacks from lions. He is the painfully shy "he" quoted above who ended up presenting at TED (over a thousand people in the audience, in an imposing setting).
The article is worth reading even if you are not giving presentations to such large audiences because most large software products today are (as expected) developed by large groups.
If you want to lead the group into some direction (for example, convince everyone to use Gerrit for code reviews), you will need presentation skills.
Perhaps not at the level of a TED presentation, but it won't hurt to get tips for the worst case scenario.
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