diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
index 026e984ca..f8f4c964e 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@
         <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>3.0.0-M3</version>
         <executions>
+          <!-- Prevent users from mistyping a profile name -->
           <execution>
             <id>enforce-valid-profile</id>
             <configuration>
@@ -363,6 +364,18 @@
               <goal>enforce</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
+          <!-- Ensure that greatest version of each transitive dependency got selected -->
+          <execution>
+            <id>enforce-dependency-upper-bound</id>
+            <configuration>
+              <rules>
+                <requireUpperBoundDeps/>
+              </rules>
+            </configuration>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>enforce</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>