diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 0a10bbc..12007fd 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ cache:
 addons:
   sonarcloud:
     organization: "319"
-    projectKey: "sisyphus"
 
 install:
   - go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep 
diff --git a/sonar-project.properties b/sonar-project.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28f1abd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sonar-project.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+sonar-project.properties
+# must be unique in a given SonarQube instance
+sonar.projectKey=sisyphus
+
+# --- optional properties ---
+
+# defaults to project key
+#sonar.projectName=My project
+# defaults to 'not provided'
+#sonar.projectVersion=1.0
+ 
+# Path is relative to the sonar-project.properties file. Defaults to .
+#sonar.sources=.
+ 
+# Encoding of the source code. Default is default system encoding
+#sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8