Available from Autodesk Lab's is a program called Bluestreak. It links with your Autodesk account and programs such as Revit and Buzzsaw as well as has it's own mobile app.
I have been testing it some in my work environment, and find it very similar in functionality to the worksharing monitor addin for Revit, except that it runs completely in the background.
Since it is all web and cloud based, all the syncronizing happens between your computer and your cloud account, which you link to your program by an addin that runs completely in the background. When activity happens on a file that is linked to Bluestreak, a popup window appears on your desktop for (5 seconds?) and tells you what activity happens. It tells you when someone is starting a save, finishing a save, and the comments they used for the save to central operation (if any).
It can also give you the ability to comment on operations another person did, in which case the comment will appear immediately on their desktop. This can be handy to know when other people are saving files so you know to either save or reload latest. You can also use the chat feature to message someone to ask that they relinquish a workset, or ask them to save to central so you may make a modification you are locked out of. Usually team members are in the same area, but there is always the possibiltiy that they may be across the office, remote, or on a different floor, so the chat feature can make it easy to reach them and poste messages.
How this differs from Worksharing Monitor is that it does not tell you who is immeditely working in the same file as you and their operations on the file. Worksharing monitor also allows you to actually see relinquish requests sent by other members of your team through Revit, but you must do so through another window in the program.
Since it is all web based, you can view logs and activity streams online on the website, assign files to groups and keep track of several projects history simultaneously. The mobile app allows you to view these activity streams and comment on them also.
Overall this can be an informative little tool, and the fact that it runs completely in the background and only gives you brief popups that automatically disappear does make it slightly convenient that it isn't another window that needs to be monitored. Anyone also has the ability to view the stream (that you allow), so managers or others can check on progress of files in their absense (or remotely via the app).
Like other Autodesk programs, this is condensed under the single Autodesk Account Login, although it doesn't appear that you can access other account features (rendering, document storage) from the utility, it's a separate website, but the single logon means it is one less password that needs to be remembered.
Try it out! http://bluestreak.autodesk.com
