Innovation in software intensive systems has been increasing for several reasons: software is embedded in many sectors of the society; for this reason, the companies need to be knowledgeable about factors that affect the innovation to increase the development of their product success; the leadership is one of the factors, therefore, this research aim is to show the high-level groups in the context of innovation in leadership that influence on software intensive systems. Considering a big growth of software systems, it is important to analyze the human factor in the context of teamwork, leader and synergies of factors that can lead to a more innovative and successful software product. Furthermore, this paper shows the group level in the innovation and the influence on the development of software systems. As a research background literature review was used in order to support this paper. In the same sense there were determined the leadership factors in order to develop software intensive systems.