Once you've finialized your agreement, make sure you find ways to preserve and manage partnership knowledge that can be crucial for continued project. You never know when things might change on your side or your partner's side and new people are introduced into the balance. They need to be able to quickly absorbe what's happened in order to keep pushing forward.

You also want to build out these processes for you next partnership agreement so that it goes smoother and not waste time re-inventing the wheel.

Tools that can help you document these processes include: wikis, CRM, to-do lists for processes (Basecamp), and best case practise documents.