diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index becd05b79..bfc671371 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -149,6 +149,15 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>3.1.0</version>
+        <!-- START added by heroku recommendations -->
+        <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>copy-dependencies</id>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals><goal>copy-dependencies</goal></goals>
+                    </execution>
+        </executions>
+        <!-- END of the new dependency added -->
         <dependencies>
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>